Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NRCS PR CIG 18 001
The FY 2018 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) opportunity for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Caribbean Area is a discretionary grant program designed to move practical conservation innovation from concept to real-world use in agriculture. The central goal is to stimulate the development and adoption of new or improved conservation approaches and technologies that work alongside agricultural production, rather than separate from it. Projects supported under this announcement are meant to show how promising ideas perform under actual field conditions and then help push those solutions toward wider use by farmers and land managers.
A key expectation of this funding is that the work will lead to transfer and adoption, not just experimentation. In other words, applicants are expected to produce results that can be taken up by agricultural producers, incorporated into NRCS technical manuals and guides, or advanced into the private sector so the innovation can be delivered at scale. The program emphasizes solutions that can be demonstrated, replicated, and communicated clearly enough that producers and conservation professionals can implement them without needing a research lab setting. The announcement also notes that innovations may include market-based approaches, indicating interest in ideas that use incentives, new market mechanisms, or business models to drive conservation outcomes in addition to technical practices.
The types of projects typically funded under CIG include pilot projects, field demonstrations, and on-farm conservation research. Pilot projects and demonstrations are intended to test and showcase an innovation under realistic operating conditions, often to reduce uncertainty for producers and conservation partners who may be deciding whether to adopt it. On-farm conservation research is defined specifically in this opportunity as an investigation that answers a focused, applied conservation question using a statistically valid design while employing farm-scale equipment on working lands, including farms, ranches, or private forest lands. That definition signals that projects should be more than informal trials; they should be structured so that results are credible and interpretable, while still being grounded in real production settings.
Administratively, this opportunity is issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, under Funding Opportunity Number USDA NRCS PR CIG 18 001 and CFDA (now Assistance Listing) 10.912. The funding instrument is a grant, and the activity category is natural resources. The announcement was created on March 30, 2018, with an original application closing date of May 30, 2018. The award ceiling is $75,000 per award, and NRCS anticipated making about five awards under this Caribbean Area announcement, indicating a relatively small, competitive pool intended to support a limited number of well-defined, high-impact projects.
Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with the intent that applicants consult the additional eligibility language in the full notice for clarification. In practice, that wording usually signals that eligibility may extend beyond a single applicant type and could include various organizations or entities that can carry out conservation innovation work in partnership with producers, but the precise eligible categories would be confirmed in the full announcement text referenced by the notice.
Overall, this CIG opportunity is best understood as seed funding for field-ready conservation innovation in the Caribbean Area: modest-sized awards intended to prove an approach works in real agricultural conditions, produce defensible results, and accelerate the handoff of successful tools or systems into producer adoption channels, NRCS technical guidance, or private-sector delivery.Apply for USDA NRCS PR CIG 18 001
- The Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Announcement for Program Funding for NRCS’ Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2018 – Caribbean Area" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.912.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 30, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 30, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $75,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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