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USAID/BFS’s Division for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is looking for researchers interested in an opportunity to support research through analyses on Feed the Future (FTF) and other food security data sets that have been collected over the life of the initiative. The agency is looking for recent master’s or PhD graduates from a social…
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USAID is holding a two-day online discussion – an AgExchange – on food safety beginning June 20 at 10 a.m. Eastern time. The online exchange will provide a forum where the international research community, Title XII institutions and USAID Missions can discuss key constraints and research priorities in food safety and overarching food safety needs, concerns…
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North Carolina State University has announced an opening in their Department of Crop and Soil Sciences for a peanut breeder. The 12-month, tenure-track position is for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Plant Breeding and will be 75 percent research, 25 percent teaching. Salary is commensurate with training and experience. The position comes open as Dr. Tom…
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The National Peanut Board has announced three opportunities totaling $1.3 million for production and peanut nutrition research that is funded jointly with USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Collaborating with three peanut industry funding partners, Southeastern Peanut Research Initiative (SPRI), The Peanut Foundation and The Peanut Institute (TPI), the National Peanut Board is…
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It’s time to nominate young scientists for the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, a $10,000 prize that recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40. The award, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, goes to someone who “has clearly demonstrated intellectual courage, stamina, and determination in…
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The ETH Zurich World Food System Center, together with the Yamsys Project and the Swiss Center for Scientific Research in Côte d’Ivoire, is taking applications for next year’s World Food System Summer School, “Food Systems in Transition,” which will be held 27 January through 10 February 2018 in Côte d’Ivoire. The two-week intensive academic course will…
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The African Journal of Rural Development (AFJRD) is seeking for papers for a supplementary issue on research, processes and related works on multi-stakeholder engagements in rural development from within and outside Africa. AFJRD is an online open-access scientific journal that publishes articles on a quarterly basis (March, June, September, December). It is a multi- disciplinary…