Grants

GRAINS offers short-term starter funds to collaborative actions aimed at transformative innovations for more sustainable agriculture and rural development across Southeast Asia. GRAINS will support the translational research and community knowledge transfer of technologies and products that will lead to diffusion or adoption through partnership with the players and actors in the agro-innovation ecosystem.

The SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair Grants uniquely empower top Southeast Asian scholars to spearhead transformational change in agriculture and rural development. By recognizing exceptional academics, these grants elevate teaching, research, innovation, and extension work across the region and widen the impact of outstanding subject matter experts who tackle critical challenges in food security, climate resilience, and sustainable livelihoods, especially among agricultural communities.

Southeast Asia is home to many researchers and scientists whose work contribute to sustaining transformation of Southeast Asian agricultural systems through innovation is often stalled by limited start-up funding, which hinders the translation of promising research and training into scientific outputs that could be applied to promote agricultural development. SFRT aims to bridge this gap. Grants of up to USD 15,000 will help worthy proposals secure long-term support.

As Southeast Asia's champion of excellence in agricultural and rural development, SEARCA offers Travel Grants (up to USD 1,200) to professionals, social scientists, and graduate students in the region. These grants support paper presentations (priority) or participation in conferences—face-to-face or online—to share findings, build networks, and foster collaborations that drive sustainable transformation of Southeast Asian agricultural systems through innovation.