Agritech Call
Launched in November 2023, the Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund will make over £1.3million available to organisations to develop clean energy agricultural technologies and appliances. Funding is being provided by UK aid via the Transforming Energy Access platform, and the IKEA Foundation.
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Since 2018 the fund has provided over £5million of support across 38 R&D projects, accelerating innovation in the off- and weak-grid appliances sector.
Under the latest call, support will be provided to develop agricultural technologies such as: post-harvest management including harvesting, handling, storage, processing, and transportation, and improvements to food systems in horticulture, dairy, fishing and livestock.
To be in scope for this call, R&D projects must:
- Develop or improve an innovative electrical appliance for use in off- and/or weak grid settings; AND
- Improve post-harvest resilience and productivity of food systems, while reducing their environmental impact. Improved resilience and productivity can be achieved in any of the following ways: ensuring and increasing incomes, expanding access to markets, reducing waste and loss, and improving the operations, service and maintenance of essential equipment within one or more value chains of a food system.
The call will open on 15 November 2023 and close on 17 January 2024. Apply to this funding call now.