Resilient Agriculture Finance and Insurance Research Collaborative
Resilient Agriculture Finance and Insurance Research Collaborative supports researchers advancing finance and insurance innovations to help U.S. farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses invest in resilience.
Funder: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Due Dates: December 11, 2025, 2 p.m. ET (Introductory webinar)
Funding Amounts: Not specified
Summary: Supports research advancing finance and insurance innovations that help U.S. farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses invest in resilience.
Key Information: Research must engage one or more financial institutions or insurers in the research design process.
Description
The Resilient Agriculture Finance and Insurance Research Collaborative is a joint initiative of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), Environmental Defense Fund and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. It supports research to accelerate finance and insurance innovations that enable U.S. farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses to invest in practices, technologies and production systems that improve resilience to adverse events affecting their operations.
The collaborative seeks actionable, science-backed insights that financial and insurance institutions can translate into new business practices, tools or policies by 2028. Its priorities address the needs of farmers and ranchers, university researchers, agricultural lenders and crop insurers. The initiative emphasizes collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches and strategies that strengthen soil health, improve water-use efficiency and build resilience to extreme weather.
