Apply for the AWARD pan-African Fellowship. Deadline: 08 October, 2018
African Women in Agricultural Research for Development (AWARD) is pleased to announce that the call for the second round of the AWARD Pan-African Fellowship is now open.
The closing date for the 2019 AWARD Pan-African Fellowship is on October 08, 2018, 23:59 East Africa Time (EAT).
Applications from African women scientists who are citizens of Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo and have completed a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in an agricultural discipline are invited to apply.
Particular attention will be accorded to applicants working on:
- sustainable agricultural value chains;
- sustainable food system;
- agro-ecology and resilient seed systems.
The AWARD Pan-African Fellowship was initiated in 2017 with support from the Agropolis Fondation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) country missions. It seeks to extend the benefits of the AWARD Fellowship to female scientists from francophone Africa and to maximize interactions between English and French speaking African women agricultural scientists.
Read here for more information on how to apply
AWARD lance l’appel à candidatures pour la seconde édition du programme de formation qui débutera en Février 2019
Le programme de formation panafricain d’AWARD a été lancé en 2017 avec le soutien de la Fondation Agropolis, la Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) et l’Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international (the United States Agency for International Development, USAID).
Les femmes scientifiques dans la recherche agricole sont invitées à postuler pour le programme de formation panafricain d’AWARD. Les candidates doivent résider en Afrique et mener leur recherche dans les disciplines telles que l’économie agricole, l’ingénierie agricole, l’agronomie, les sciences alimentaires et nutrition, l’éducation, recherche et vulgarisation, l’écologie, la biologie moléculaire, la sélection des plantes/des animaux, la phytotechnie, les sciences animales et systèmes d’élevage, l’entomologie, la gestion des ressources naturelles, la virologie, la science des sols, la pêche et ressources halieutiques, forêts et agroforesterie, biodiversité, horticulture et gestion de l’eau et des systèmes d’irrigation
Une attention particulière sera accordée aux travaux de recherche portant sur les chaînes de valeur agricoles, les systèmes alimentaires durables, les systèmes agro-écologiques et de resilience
Le délai de soumission des candidatures est fixé au 08 Octobre 2018.
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During the 14th International gvSIG Conference (24th-26th Oct 2018) in València, Spain there will be a GODAN AgriGIS session with presentations in Agriculture themes. Your contributions and inputs on AgriGIS, Food Security research and examples are welcome. Please send your abstracts through the abstract submission section of the conference website.
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- 2019-20 Agrarian Studies Program Fellowships. Emerging as well as established scholars (in the interdisciplinary study of agrarian societies, historically and across the world) are encouraged to apply here
- TWAS offers fellowships to young scientists in developing countries to enable them to spend three to 12 months at a research institution in a developing country other than their own. The purpose of these fellowships is to enhance the research capacity of promising scientists, especially those at the beginning of their research career, helping them to foster links for further collaboration. Application Deadline: 1 October, 2018. APPLICATION DETAILS
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