This project seeks to strengthen student understanding of the farm-to-fork food system. This project's main goal is to upkeep, collection, and summarization data from the Woody Perennial Polyculture (WPP).
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WPP Research Site
Lincoln Avenue & Windsor Road
61801
Urbana
, IL
United States
Illinois
Projects at this location
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| Community Food Projects |
Community Food Projects are intended to bring together stakeholders from the distinct parts of the food system and to foster understanding of national food security trends and how they might improve local food systems. |
| Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area |
This AFRI Challenge Area focuses on the societal challenge to end obesity among children, the number one nutrition-related problem in U.S. |
| Ecosystem Research Grants |
EPA funds ecosystems research grants to protect ecosystems and the air and water resources that provide numerous benefits for humans and other living things. |
| Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents |
This program encourages applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth. Applications to promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass media. |
| Office of behavioral and social sciences research |
The missions of the office is to Enhance the impact of health-related behavioral and social sciences research, coordinate behavioral and social sciences research conducted or supported by the NIH, integrate these sciences within the larger NIH research enterprise, and Communicate health-related behavioral and social sciences research findings to various stakeholders within and outside the federal government |
| Supporting US Sustainable Development Goals |
Projects must use satellite remote sensing and other tools to address a specific Sustainable Development Goals 14 or 15 target or targets in a manner that explores the implications of climate variability and change for addressing that target(s). |
| Critical Agricultural Research and Extension (CARE) |
The goal of this program is to invest in agricultural production research, education, and extension projects for more sustainable, productive and economically viable plant and animal production systems. |
| Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education (SARE) |
The purpose of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) program is to encourage research designed to increase our knowledge concerning agricultural production systems that: |
| Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants |
Projects under this program aim to carry out research, to facilitate or expand promising breakthroughs in areas of the food and agricultural sciences of importance to the nation and to facilitate or expand on-going State-Federal food and agricultural research programs. |
| Local Food Promotion Program |
The Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) offers grant funds with a 25% match to support the development and expansion of local and regional food business enterprises to increase domestic consumption of, and access to, locally and regionally produced agricultural products, and to develop new market opportunities for farm and ranch operations serving local markets. |
| Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate Challenge |
This program funds research attempting to understand the interaction between climate variability and agricultural production systems to develop the plants, animals and management systems that will be robust and productive under changing environmental conditions while providing the important ecosystem services needed from these lands. |
| Dimensions of Biodiversity |
The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. Successful proposals pursue an integrated approach to understand the interactions and feedback among genetic, phylogenetic and functional dimensions of biodiversity. |
| Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems |
The Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program supports interdisciplinary research that examines human and natural system processes as well as the complex interactions between them at diverse scales. |
| Woody Perennial Polyculture (WPP) Research Site |
The Woody Perennial Polyculture (WPP) Research Site at the University of Illinois is working create a research farm in which the arrangement of plants is similar to that of the climate’s natural ecosystem, but uses plants that are more practical for human consumption. This research site is the first attempt at a large-scale WPP system in a temperate environment. The research from the farm is intended to show that the WPP system is a sustainable and economically advantageous alternative to the corn-soybean rotation that is commonly used on farms across the Midwest. |
Projects
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Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area -
Community Food Projects
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Critical Agricultural Research and Extension (CARE)
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Dimensions of Biodiversity
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Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems
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Ecosystem Research Grants
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Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants
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Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents
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Local Food Promotion Program
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Office of behavioral and social sciences research
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Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate Challenge
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Supporting US Sustainable Development Goals
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Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education (SARE)
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Woody Perennial Polyculture (WPP) Research Site
Project Updates
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12/20/2017
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6/30/2014
New Update from the Woody Perennial Polyculture Research Site!