Other funding opportunities
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Current opportunities
Innovate UK: ADOPT funding
ADOPT supports collaborative farmer-led, on-farm trials or experiments to generate, test and demonstrate innovative solutions to farming challenges. Project outputs will provide knowledge of new approaches which will be shared to the wider sector to provide confidence for others to adopt.
There are are two different types of grants available:
- A small Support Grant to access professional assistance from an industry expert to help develop an application to the Full ADOPT Grant.
- A Full ADOPT Grant to support collaborative farmer-led, on-farm trials or experiments.
NERC urgency funding
Apply for funding up to £100,000 to respond quickly to transient, unexpected environmental research opportunities created by sporadic natural occurrences such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, or ephemeral events in ecosystems. The aim of this funding is to help researchers collect valuable data at the start of the event before other events and actions affect the data collection.
NIHR: Greenspace and natural environments
The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is looking to fund research which evaluates the health impacts of interventions which change access to green and blue space. This is a two-stage funding opportunity. To apply for the first stage you should submit an outline application. If invited to the second stage, you will then need to complete a full application.
Deadline for outline applications: 12 December 2025
More information
NERC, Pushing the frontiers of environmental research
Apply for up to £950,000 funding from a total fund of £28 million to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research. You must be:
- based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding
- in a role that meets the individual eligibility requirements
Deadline: 21 January 2026
More information
Websites to check
Here are some websites that regularly feature funding opportunities in agri-food.
Funding for farmers, growers and land managers
A page on gov.uk listing grants and other funding currently open or opening soon.
Innovate UK Business Connect
Helps organisations interested in agri-food innovation access the expert information, funding and connections needed to drive change.
UKRI Funding Finder
Includes current and forthcoming funding opportunities from UKRI, including BBSRC, ESRC and NERC.
UKRI areas of investment and support
A detailed list of all the research councils’ themes, research areas, programmes and priorities. You can find what they are investing in and what resources you can access. The list can be filtered by research council.
