Opportunities
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Today is the last day to apply for the 2017 AWARD AgTech Innovation Challenge for West and North Africa. Institutions or enterprises interested in applying may do so by submitting the online application form. Gender Agribusiness Investments for Africa (GAIA), a program launched by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), is accepting applications…
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Nominations have opened for the 2017 Africa Food Prize, a prestigious award that recognizes outstanding individuals or institutions leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa from a struggle to survive to a business that thrives. The $100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of the agriculture agenda, highlighting initiatives and…
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On this year’s International Women’s Day, Feed the Future’s communications team, Agrilinks, will host “Women Without Borders: Gender and Informal Cross-Border Trade,” a live event in Washington, D.C. that you can stream online. The webinar will be March 8 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. EST. Links to register, both to participate in-person or for the…
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The organizers of the inaugural All Africa Postharvest Technologies and Innovations Challenge extended the deadline for entries to today (24 February) to give researchers and innovators more time to participate. The challenge is part of the All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition which being hosted from the 28 to 31 March 2017 by the University…
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The American Peanut Research and Education Society is soliciting nominations for awards recognizing an individual’s service to the peanut industry or APRES, outstanding paper, outstanding research project, outstanding education project and outstanding graduate student speaker during its Annual Meeting. This year, that meeting will be held July 11-13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eligibility rules and…
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The FAO of the United Nations and Research4Life are hosting a series of webinars as part of an online course by A.S.I.R.A. (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) specifically for professionals working in low-income countries. It’s too late to sign up for the course, but the webinar sessions are open to anyone and follow…
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Virginia Tech is looking for a doctoral candidate in crop physiology to work at the Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Suffolk on a project related to drought tolerance in peanuts. The project, which runs through 2019, is in collaboration with a physiologist and peanut breeder at North Carolina State University and is focused…