Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative Extension Disaster Education Network
Funds coordination and administrative leadership for the Extension Disaster Education Network to build CES capacity for all-hazards education and technical assistance on food, agriculture, and related disaster risks.
⚑ Designed to support Cooperative Extension Service/EDEN coordination and capacity-building, not primary research. · Broad applicant eligibility is stated, including all colleges and universities and other domestic or foreign entities, subject to NOFO requirements.
This is primarily an Extension/technical-assistance coordination grant for the food and agriculture sector, centered on CES capacity-building rather than the team’s core survey, risk-perception, warning, energy, or education-policy research programs. It touches disasters and resilience, but the service-delivery/extension mission is too far from this team’s PI-level work.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-08-20
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | portfolio topics: emergency_disaster_resilience, cybersecurity; signature methods: community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is minor; funds technical assistance, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 25 weak | technical depth: minor; funds technical assistance (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
The goal of the FADI-EDEN program, under assistance listing 10.304, is to support CES’s ability to maximize the resilience of the U.S. food and agriculture sector to biosecurity risks, weather events and disasters, cyber threats, and other shocks through the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN). EDEN is a national, collaborative network of CES professionals who are dedicated to improved all-hazards management of domestic disasters. EDEN supports all-hazards capacity-building efforts for peer CES professionals so that they are prepared for and skilled in directly providing education and technical assistance to farmers, youth and families, small businesses, and communities. The FADI-EDEN program provides coordination support and administrative leadership to EDEN so that it can achieve its mission.
Eligibility
Applicants for the FADI-EDEN program must meet all the requirements discussed in this NOFO. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s About Grants provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process. In accordance with section 1472(c) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (NARETPA), applicants may be: State Agricultural Experiment Stations, state Cooperative Extension services, all colleges and universities, other research or education institutions and organizations, Federal and private agencies and organizations, individuals, and any other contractor or recipient, either foreign or domestic, to further research, Extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture. Failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration or, even though an application may be reviewed, will preclude NIFA from making an award.
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