Funding Opportunity: A Time for Giving and a Time for Seed Saving!
Posted: November 27, 2013
Categories: News from Sustain Members
Are you an individual, group, or organization working to save, diversify, and distribute grain or vegetable seeds in 2014? If so, the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security is offering two funding opportunities for seed growers, seed savers, and community-based seed projects. Find out more below or access the full application details from their website.
Public Access and Regional Seed Diversification Fund
Call for proposals: October 1, 2013 – November 30, 2013
Canada’s farmers and gardeners rely on a narrow crop gene pool, composed mainly of seed varieties that are not ideally suited to Canada’s diverse and challenging growing conditions. This funding offers capacity-building support across Canada for organizations whose programs increase the diversity of seeds available to farmers and gardeners, especially of food crop varieties suited to local bioregions. The total amount to be allocated across the country in 2014 is $35,000. For more information and to submit an application, please access the funding webpage.
Seed Facilitation Fund: Scaling Up and Bulking Up Ecological Vegetable Seed and Grains
Call for proposals: November 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013
Canada’s farmers, seed producers, processors and retailers need high quality grains and vegetable seeds in the quantities and varieties appropriate for their operations and markets. The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security will support producers and organizations looking to expand, diversify, and/or integrate seed production into their operations.
The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security’s Seed Facilitation Fund is issuing a call for proposals for three categories of activity:
- Variety trials and bulking up
- Capacity building
- Capital investments for seed production
The funding targets ecologically produced vegetable seeds and grains (both seed and food crops of grains are eligible). The total amount to be allocated across the country in 2014 is $150,000. For more information and to submit an application, please access the funding webpage.