Contestable Funding Round – Now Closed

Our Land and Water is seeking proposals for research addressing key questions across four topic areas:

1. Effects of global disruptions or trends on land-use decisions
2. The pace and long-term consequences of land-use change
3. Understanding the social license to farm
4. A stable, publicly accessible digital platform for land and water monitoring data and tools

Proposals should be scoped as either:

• Think Piece: A desktop study with stakeholders, to produce an output that answers, explores and/or refines the research question(s) as appropriate, valued up to $100k and with a duration of up to 6 months.
• Research Programme: Research with stakeholders to produce outputs that directly answer specific research questions, valued up to $1 million with a duration of up to 18 months.

The total value of the fund is approximately $5 million. The deadline for proposal submission is 31 March 2022.

More information can be found here and below.

Key information, templates and contacts:

• Contestable Funding Round 2022 – further information (PDF as above)
• Links to the proposal templates for this contestable fund are: Think Piece proposal template 2022 (.dox) and Research Programme proposal template 2022 (.docx). Please use these templates, not the generic OLW research proposal template
• Proposals must be submitted before 31 March 2022, via this form
• General enquiries to ourlandandwater@agresearch.co.nz
• Enquiries regarding research to OLW Chief Scientist Richard McDowell: richard.mcdowell@agresearch.co.nz
• OLW principles, strategy and general information can be found under About menu, above
• OLW past and current research is listed under Our Science menu, above
• OLW resources for researchers