Who funds soil health research?

We count 65 funded soil health projects, active between 2022 and 2031, from 5 funders. The most came from EU · Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (32 projects), USDA (19 projects) and EU · MSCA (4 projects). The median award is $3.7M, across the 65 of 65 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

65

Funders

5

Median award

$3.7M

Open calls now

4

Top funders of soil health research

Projects whose title or summary mentions soil health. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open soil health funding calls

4 open calls mention soil health today.

• Living labs to enhance soil health in Continental, Black Sea, Pannonian and Steppic biogeographical regions
  European Commission · Horizon Europe · EU MissionsUp to €12,000,000Deadline: April 8, 2027 ·
• Agroforestry for soil health at landscape level
  European Commission · Horizon Europe · EU MissionsUp to €8,000,000Deadline: April 8, 2027 ·
• Innovative biotechnologies to restore soil health and improve agricultural competitiveness and resilience
  European Commission · Horizon Europe · EU MissionsUp to €6,400,000Deadline: April 8, 2027 ·
• Long-term drivers and consequences of soil degradation: learning from the past to improve future soil health
  European Commission · Horizon Europe · EU MissionsUp to €7,000,000Deadline: April 8, 2027 ·

Funded soil health projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Grazinglands are a hotspot for managing essential ecosystem services such as maintaining good water quality, and stream and soil health…
  USDA · $749,978 · ends 2030
• Healthy soils are the foundation of productive, resilient, and sustainable agricultural systems, yet many current soil health assessments…
  USDA · $849,987 · ends 2030
• Healthy soil is the foundation of productive farms, clean water, and resilient rural economies, but today's soil health scorecards…
  USDA · $737,740 · ends 2030
• Scalable Ecosystem Monitoring In Kenya: Soil health And human-wildlife coexistence
  UKRI · ISPF · £393,775 · ends 2028
• The Practicality and Profitability of Multispiecies Cropping
  UKRI · Innovate UK · £73,685 · ends 2028
• CGIAR System Organization — Agricultural Development
  Gates Foundation · $5,000,000 · ends 2027
• Modern Laboratory Equipment for Geologic and Agricultural Studies
  NSF · GEO · $99,612 · ends 2027
• Combining knowledge-guided process models and data-driven machine learning models for enhancing soil carbon modelling in space and time
  EU · MSCA · €242,261 · 2027–2029 · INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT - AGROPARISTECH
• Crop resilience through AI-guided microbiome engineering
  EU · EIC · €3,998,993 · 2027–2031 · UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
• SBIR Phase I: Recovering Damaged Coastal Ecosystems Using Upcycled Food Waste
  NSF · TIP · $305,000 · ends 2026

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “soil health”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.