ACRE Awards Five Faculty Research Grants

The Institute for Agricultural and Conservation Research and Education (ACRE) awarded grants to five UofM faculty members. 

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ACRE Launches with Fall 2024 Symposium

The University of Memphis’s newly established Institute for Agricultural and Conservation Research and Education (ACRE) kicked off its inaugural symposium Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, planting the seeds of innovation and collaboration with an eager audience invested in agriculture and conservation.

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Researchers from ACRE are addressing the UofM’s Next Generation Supply Chain Technologies and Innovation Challenge

Faculty from the Fogelman College of Business & Economics and the College of Arts & Sciences were funded to pursue work related to: “Developing Biodiversity Credit Platform to manage supply chain for ag-based biodiversity credits: a market-based incentive structure to encourage farmer adoption of conservation practices that restore biodiversity, soil health, and ecosystem resilience.”

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Opportunities to Revitalize the Regional Ag Economy

ACRE will collaborate with Alcorn State University, Rust College, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Jackson State University. The project includes the 44 counties of the Mid-South Mississippi Delta and will include community engagement with target audiences in the project service area, including surveys, focus groups, and personal interviews with 1,500 students (K-16), 150 teachers, 100 farmers, and 500 consumers, as well as 50 companies in grocery, food processing, and other food and agribusiness sectors

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Interview with Tennessee Home & Farm Radio

The University of Memphis’s newly established Institute for Agricultural and Conservation Research and Education (ACRE) kicked off its inaugural symposium on Thursday, Sept. 19, planting the seeds of innovation and collaboration with an eager audience invested in agriculture and conservation

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