Grand Challenges India: Achieving Healthy Growth through
Agriculture and Nutrition
Application Deadline: October 31, 2013
Overview:
Achieving Healthy Growth through Agriculture and Nutrition, the
first program launched through the Grand Challenges India partnership, is now
accepting applications. This program joins others within the Grand Challenges
family of grant programs supported by the Gates Foundation and its partners.
Applicants:
This Request for Proposals is specific to India and open to anyone
who is interested in applying – including academics, research institutions,
medical research institutions, for-profit companies, NGOS, not-for-profit
organizations, and foundations. Grants will be to innovators who are Indian
individuals or Indian entities, but we encourage partnerships with researchers
in other countries, especially where the opportunity exists to build on
established collaborations.
Approaches:
A comprehensive set of approaches - spanning innovation
in nutrition and agriculture and social innovation to:
1) Reduce the high incidence of low birth weight, early stunting,
and wasting in Indian children less than 2 years of age
2) Prevent undernutrition in women of reproductive age and in
children from 0-2 years of age.
Details on how to apply for a grant can be found at http://www.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/GCIndia_healthygrowth.aspx
