Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research is an organization that connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
A Wild Idea To Improve Emerging Tomato Varieties
By Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research|August 16, 2025
Learn more about a collaborative project to harness wild tomatoes’ genetic diversity to improve cultivated tomato varieties.
Help on the Way To Protect Tomatoes From Parasitic Weed
By Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research|August 28, 2024
Nearly a half million dollars in new funds to develop a tomato variety with resistance to branched broomrape.
Fresh Funds To Support the Fight Against Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus in Lettuce
By Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research|August 23, 2023
Grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research aimed to increase crop resistance to the deadly pathogen.
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