Opportunities
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) is taking applications for PhD in plant breeding at WACCI, University of Ghana. Successful applicants will be enrolled in January 2020 as the 13th cohort of students in the WACCI PhD Plant Breeding training programme. Prospective students must have a master’s degree in plant breeding, plant genetics, plant…
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Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management is accepting proposals for the 2019 STAARS Fellowship Program. The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) Fellows program is a collaboration between Cornell University and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to advance in-depth, rigorous, policy-oriented research on productivity and income growth, asset accumulation, rural…
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The Agrilinks 2018 Photo Challenge is accepting pictures of agriculture and food security work around the world. People who want to share pictures can submit up to 10 images. Entries will be judged on relevance to one or more Agrilinks topic areas, composition, originality and technical quality. A judging panel and social media crowd voting will…
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The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) is accepting applications for the 2018 RISE (Research, Innovate, Scale, Establish) for Nutrition. ECF has pledged to invest $100 million in nutrition by 2030. The RISE for Nutrition annual grant funds research on cost-effective, scalable innovations designed to improve nutrition interventions in East Africa. The 2018 RFA includes a multi-stage…
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Government of Rwanda and the African Union, are holding a regional conference, Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa: Engaging through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Entrepreneurship, on 20 and 21 August 2018. For more information…
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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in partnership with Royal DSM and the SUN Business Network is organizing a Nutrition Dealroom for companies working in the agri-food value chain. The first-of-its-kind program will be part of the Nutrition Africa Investor Forum scheduled 16 and 17 October 2018 in Nairobi. The forum will give an…
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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, in conjunction with Mars and the Sight and Life Foundation, is holding an elevator-pitch contest, asking for students and young professionals to share ideas that could lead to an aflatoxin-free food system. The best ideas for a disruptive solution can get $15,000 in seed funds and an audience with…