AGMARDT strategically invests in initiatives to encourage innovative thinking, research capability and collaboration and to develop emerging leaders in New Zealand’s food and fibre sector – all with the goal of accelerating positive change and igniting a better future for food and fibres in Aotearoa New Zealand.  We do this by offering a range of fund programmes summarised below.

• Agribusiness Innovation Grants (Under and Over $30k) – to encourage and support industry sectors and businesses to develop and implement innovative solutions to assist with transformational change within agribusiness value chains.

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• Capability Development Grants (Group and Individual) – AGMARDT want to ensure there is a pipeline of talented individuals ready to take on leadership roles and drive innovation.

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Applications can be submitted anytime throughout the year but must be received by the application close date, which is around one month prior to a grant decision meeting.

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Overview of AGMARDT Grant-Making

AGMARDT manages a small investment fund and therefore makes targeted investments to the agricultural and food and fibre sectors (land-based food and fibres in line with AGMARDT’s Trust Deed) through grants into research, innovation, capability and collaborative initiatives. Specifically, these include:

• Investment into research and innovation, including Agritech solutions to help address challenges of the sector, food tech for a substantially grown NZ product, and environmental impacts of or on the food and fibre sector. These include dairy, meat, wool, horticulture, viticulture, bees, forestry, and arable.
• Investing in capability building for individuals and groups.
• Investing in collaboration initiatives.
• In addition to investments , AGMARDT also:
  i.   Generates and shares insights into what is making a significant difference for the agricultural, food and fibres sectors in New Zealand.
  ii.  Identifies high-potential individuals who may seek to invest in new ideas, commercialisation and scaling.
  iii.  Collaborates with other funders and investment partners.