Precision Indoor Plants (PIP)

Precision Indoor Plants (PIP) is sponsored by Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. A public-private partnership that helps food producers grow flavorful, nutritious food indoors, increasing the ability to produce quality crops valuable and desired by consumers.

Precision Indoor Plants - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research Your browser does not support the video tag. FFAR » What We Do » Our Consortia » Precision Indoor Plants Precision Indoor Plants (PIP), a public-private partnership, helps food producers grow flavorful, nutritious food indoors. The consortium’s audacious research increases our ability to produce quality crops that are valuable and desired by consumers.

Generating Food Systems Solutions Precision Indoor Plants (PIP), a public-private partnership, helps food producers grow flavorful, nutritious food indoors. The consortium’s audacious research increases our ability to produce quality crops that are valuable and desired by consumers.

Generating Food Systems Solutions Partnerships & Development Contact Existing Food Production Systems Must Evolve The future of food production faces numerous challenges – climate change, shifts in consumer demands and the need for food production in new frontiers. One promising food production approach to these challenges is controlled environment agriculture.

Controlled environments offer unprecedented opportunities to improve nutritional content, flavor and crop quality. Current interest and investment in controlled environment agriculture are largely focused on growing facilities and energy costs. However, realizing the potential of indoor agriculture systems requires developing a broader variety of crops designed for controlled environment agriculture.

PIP leverages private-sector investments to develop crops specifically for indoor agriculture. Our participants collaboratively set ambitious scientific goals and pool resources to fund the research to achieve those goals. We welcome new participants interested in joining us or co-funding individual projects.

A world where nutritious food is sustainably grown irrespective of geography or climate PIP is exploring how to adapt plants to indoor environments to grow flavorful, nutritious and resource-efficient crops in a variety of environments. Designing Crops for Indoor Agriculture The PIP consortium generates the knowledge and resources to accelerate the development of crops that thrive in controlled environment agriculture.

We are advancing crop science by focusing on problems largely underfunded or overlooked, such as nutrition and taste. By controlling most factors during crop development, we explore how the combination of environmental inputs and genetic control gives rise to desired traits. We are using a variety of pioneering methods including advancements in artificial intelligence, phenomics and computational modeling to achieve PIP’s vision.

Additionally, this research expands the potential for growing crops in any environment. Increasing nutrient content and yields, growing crops with less energy and understanding how crops perform best in controlled environment agriculture can improve farming in a wide variety of agricultural environments, including space. PIP convenes a diverse array of global leaders who are changing the way crops are produced.

The participants include BASF, FFAR, Fluence, GreenVenus and Priva.

Awarded Grants for the Precision Indoor Plants FFAR Grant Develops Premium Strawberry Flavors for Indoor Growing Environments FFAR award amount $1,800,000 Total award amount $1,800,000 Matching Funders AeroFarms, BASF, Benson Hill, Fluence by OSRAM, GreenVenus and Priva Grantee Institution The Ohio State University PIP Indoor Tomato Farming Project Total award amount $2,112,454 Matching Funders AeroFarms, BASF, Fluence by OSRAM, GreenVenus, Priva Grantee Institution University of Florida FFAR award amount $1,061,576 Total award amount $6,630,342 Location Wageningen, The Netherlands Matching Funders Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Bayer, Bosman Van Zaal, Certhon, Dutch Research Council, Fresh Forward, Grodan, GrowX, Own Greens, Signify, Solynta, Unilever, Van Bergen Kolpa Architects Grantee Institution Wageningen University Our Insights highlight unique perspectives from across the food and agriculture community.

Packaging Innovation & Collaborative Research Illuminating Pest Management FFAR Fellow, Washington State University Bold Solutions Addressing Food Insecurity Engineering Beneficial Bacteria PIP is Pioneering Indoor Agriculture Collaborations Scientific Program Director Bolstering Healthy Food Systems Feedback Loops & Food Access The latest news and updates from FFAR.

Opportunity to Advance Protein, Flavor & Functionality Funding Opportunity Drives Packaging Innovation for US Growers FFAR Research to Reduce Gluten Intolerance Funding Opportunity Drives Innovation & Commercialization in Sustainable Packaging for Specialty Crop Exports FFAR Grant to Improve Sorghum & Strengthen Nutritional Security Advancing Circular Bioeconomy with Biomass Feedstocks Student Teams Combat Climate Change FFAR & NWO Launch Greenhouses in Transition & Welcome Proposals FFAR Accepting Applications for Harvest for Health Breakthrough Crop Challenge FFAR Grant Unites Urban Agriculture Operations to Increase Food Security Researchers Investigate the Promise of Food Procurement Pairing Regenerative Farming and Solar Energy Production to Improve Urban Resilience FFAR Announces Harvest for Health Prize Criteria FFAR Grant Develops Premium Strawberry Flavors for Indoor Growing Environments FFAR Program Develops Underutilized Crops FFAR & Schmidt Futures Release Report to Advance a Circular U.S. Bioeconomy Grant Aims to Reduce Food Waste FFAR, NPB Seek to Improve Air Quality on Pig Farms FFAR & WUR Launch Nature-Based Future Challenge FFAR Grant Tackles Peanut Allergy Tools, technologies and strategies from the research we fund.

Converting Agricultural Waste into Snacks Breakthrough for FFAR Awards $540,000 Grant to Minimize Food Waste Reducing Food Waste by Predicting Product Shelf Life Breakthrough for FFAR Grant to Accurately Predict Food’s Shelf Life to Reduce Food Waste Tracking Disruptions to the Food Supply Chain Breakthrough for Food and Agricultural Vulnerability Index Developing Functional Ice to Keep Food Fresher, Longer Breakthrough for Innovations in the Food Supply Chain to Reduce Food Waste Deleting Wheat Proteins that Cause Intolerances Breakthrough for Reducing Wheat Allergenicity: Paving the Way to Non-Allergenic Wheat Loyalty Shopper Card Intervention Creates Behavior Change Breakthrough for Individually-targeted incentives, diet quality and health outcomes among adults Increased Fiber, Same Great Taste Breakthrough for Increasing Dietary Fiber in Wheat Crop Connecting Growers & Markets Breakthrough for FFAR Grant Develops Tools to Predict Consumer Demand, Reduce Food Waste