Opportunities
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Sustainable Intensification is looking for an assistant or associate director for the management entity, which is within the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University.
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Scholarships are available for young people from developing countries who work in areas such as economic development, food security, or access to education and health care to participate in the Global Youth Leaders Certificate at Coady Institute at St. Francis Xavier University from Sept. 19 to Oct. 7, 2016. This program enables young development practitioners…
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The deadline is approaching to apply for the Next Generation Women Leaders 2016 – a workshop to be held in Paris May 12-14, 2016. McKinsey & Company invites students and young professional women across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa to participate in the three-day workshop focused on building leaders.
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APRES (the American Peanut Research and Education Society) has put out a call for original papers or posters to be presented at the 2016 APRES Annual Meeting this July. Candidates should submit an abstract online at www.apresinc.com by March 31, 2016. Authors of both oral presentations and posters will be notified by May 1 if…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has nearly $19 million available in competitive grants to support fellowships and other higher education training projects in food, nutrition, natural resources and agriculture fields. These fellowships are administered through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and will support pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, undergraduate fellowships, and professional development…
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The Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) has announced a Request for Applications (RFA) for Farmer-to-Farmer Special Program Support Project Small Grants. The full RFA is available at the Farmer-toFarmer website. The F2F Small Grant projects are meant to test innovative approaches to use U.S. based volunteers overseas in the food and agriculture sector, to…
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The online course “Leaders of change: Helping African policymakers develop their capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy” is starting on March 28. The deadline to submit applications is March 2. Politics & Ideas, the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP ) and INASP will support, with full scholarships, the involvement of those…
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