Opportunities

  • Georgetown University is offering a full-tuition scholarship for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who are interested in a career in international development. Competitive applicants should have at least one to two years of experience working in international development or a related field. All applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree prior to proposed enrollment. The Global…

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  • The International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) Africa Chapter (www.iaald-africa.org) and the Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) (www.itoca.org) is soliciting proposals for papers and workshops/seminars to be presented at the 4th IAALD Africa Conference in Pretoria, South Africa, 30 May to 1 June 2018. Papers should reflect and explore the conference theme,…

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  • The second African Symposium on Mycotoxicology will be held in Mombasa, Kenya on 24-27 June 2018. The African Society of Mycotoxicology hosted the first symposium in Zambia in 2015, and will host this event under the auspices of the International Society on Mycotoxicology (ISM). Themes of the conference include: Occurrence and importance of mycotoxins in…

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  • A well-made video about aflatoxin — where it comes from, how it increases and how to discourage it — has been translated into eight African languages and made available for download in several formats depending on the technology needs of the viewer. The McKnight Foundation funded the video, which was filmed in South America and…

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  • Meds & Food for Kids is offering a fellowship to work with the team in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, to improve nutrition and food security by making therapeutic food and improving agricultural practices. The job, which begins this fall, requires a 12-month commitment.   Duties include the development and implementation of agriculture research and extension programs aimed…

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  • Feed the Future’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) is looking for up to four students (advanced MA or PhD level) who are interested in working on the intersection of climate, gender and nutrition using Feed-the-Future datasets. Through the GCAN Student Challenge, these students will explore how climate, gender and nutrition intersect to…

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  • Trade and partnership development can make all the difference for a young agribusiness. That’s why the Global African Agribusiness Accelerator Platform (GAAAP) is holding a workshop that introduces key resources that youth involved in agriculture and agribusiness can access to become active in new or existing value chains and through development of trade linkages and…

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