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Domestic R&D grant competition, not a border trade instrument. Innovate UK (the UK's public innovation agency, part of UK Research and Innovation) runs the competition on behalf of DEFRA as part of the wider Farming Innovation Programme, which channels public co-funding into agri-tech collaborations between businesses, research institutions and end-user farmers. Round 4 of the "Small R&D Partnership Projects" strand allocates GBP 7.8m total across awards, with each project's eligible costs capped between GBP 1m and 3m and a collaboration requirement (lead applicant plus at least one other UK organisation, including an SME, with no partner above 70% of costs).
Severity is rated low (1/5, quant basis on the disclosed GBP 7.8m pot) — this is a modest, competitive domestic grant scheme with no cross-border restriction or discriminatory market-access effect; it is filed for register completeness on the food-security/agricultural production-support axis alongside comparable programmes (EU Latvia agricultural investment aid, UK Wales sustainable farming scheme).
EU Common Agricultural Policy subsidies with targeted, competitive innovation-grant instruments administered jointly by DEFRA and Innovate UK.
and foresters are the intended beneficiaries via participating UK business consortia.
consortia/technologies were funded) were not yet public as of the primary source review and would be a natural follow-up filing if material.