The mission of the World Economic Forum’s System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Food is to build inclusive, sustainable, efficient and nutritious food systems through leadership-driven, market-based action and collaboration, informed by insights and innovation, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals. The System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Food aims to: Strengthen Global Food Systems: Facilitate systems thinking and…

The World Hunger-Fighters Foundation (WHFF) is a non-profit organization committed to building a better world where no person should ever go hungry. Founded and endowed by Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the vision of the World Hunger Fighters Foundation is to develop a new generation of young food and agribusiness entrepreneurs to help end global hunger and promote agriculture as a business that unleashes wealth for poor farmers. The World Hunger Fighters…

MACAMPO / Holland Greentech (HGT) Ghana is looking for a business developer based in Accra. Due to the upcoming population growth in Ghana, growing urbanisation, economic growth and increasing middle-class incomes, availability of safe and attractive vegetables is key to prevent hunger & malnutrition coming decades. Also, farmers increasingly recognize the potential of vegetable growing as a business but a horticultural gap in knowledge and…

Esta convocatoria busca los medios que permitan fomentar la generación de ideas, conocimientos y capacidades de jóvenes innovadores para contribuir a reducir el hambre y la pobreza en Honduras a través del desarrollo de propuestas de emprendimientos sostenibles y novedosos. Se otorgara ayuda financiera a terceros a través de la selección de una entidad u organización que diseñará, coordinará y gestionará los servicios de Incubadora de propuestas…

El principal objetivo de las oficinas de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, es ayudar a los gobiernos a desarrollar políticas, programas y proyectos para lograr la seguridad alimentaria y reducir el hambre y la desnutrición, para ayudar a desarrollar los sectores agrícola, pesquero y forestal. Las principales funciones del consultor serán: Presentar un programa de trabajo. Ayudar en la realización de los…

The people who make up the Earth Institute are earth scientists, economists, business and policy experts, specialists in public health and law, researchers, teachers and students. The institute comprises more than two dozen research centers and several hundred people who collaborate across many disciplines and schools at the university. The Earth Institute at Columbia University invites applications for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships that…

In order to achieve a world free of hunger and malnutrition, it is vital to provide sustainable solutions that provide the largest impacts on development outcomes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key role in ensuring Food Security programs are designed, implemented as plan and that they improve the well-being of the target communities. This course equips the participants with adequate skills to develop and manage robust M&E…

Agriculture forms the backbone of many developing countries and is the main economic activity for the rural communities. Since its modest beginnings, the agricultural sector has become increasingly complex and multi-faceted. The challenge agriculture faces today is how to feed the world population in an equitable manner while protecting the environment from irreversible negative changes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key…

The GOU and the EU have partnered together through the MARKUP to comprehensively address the obstacles and challenges experienced in the coffee and cocoa value chains in relation to reduced production and productivity, harvest and post-harvest losses, market access and diversification into higher export markets for smallholders. The programme has a regional component and national component. At national level, the project will enhance market…

The U.S. Embassy Hanoi invites YSEALI members in Vietnam to submit proposals for the 2019 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Micro-Grant Program. This competitive program offers grants of up to $1,000 (or more in exceptional cases) to individuals and not-forprofit groups of Vietnamese young people aged between 18 and 35 to conduct programs and activities on topics of Civic Engagement, Education, Economic Development, and…

In this course you will become familiar with the ideas of the water-energy-food nexus and transdisciplinary thinking. You will learn to see your community or country as a complex social-ecological system and to describe its water, energy and food metabolism in the form of a pattern, as well as to map the categories of social actors. We will provide you with the tools to measure the nexus elements and to analyze them in a coherent way across…

The Africa Agri-Food Development Programme (AADP) is a joint initiative between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Objective of the AADP is to develop partnerships between the Irish Agri-Food Sector and African countries to support sustainable growth of the local food industry, build markets for local produce and support mutual trade between Ireland and Africa. The partners…

El propósito de este curso es promover la reflexión sobre las distintas políticas, leyes, programa e instrumentos que buscan la inclusión de la agricultura familiar en los sistemas de cadenas de valor con base en estudios realizados a nivel global sobre el tema y presentando evidencia y ejemplos prácticos de la región. Al final del curso los participantes tendrán una visión integral de los distintos tipos de políticas y herramientas que permitan…

Generation Africa’s mission is to bring the dynamism of youth entrepreneurship to Africa’s agri-food sector. It aims to strengthen the ecosystem that supports agripreneurs as they travel their perilous journey from ideation to scale. Generation Africa will reach thousands of young people through its “GoGettaz” competition, which will award US$100,000 in prize money to two exceptional business ventures in the agri-food sector. The partnership…

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos en Colombia, pretende fortalecer las capacidades locales en los departamentos de La Guajira, Norte de Santander y Arauca para brindar asistencia alimentaria y nutricional adecuada y eficaz en caso de emergencia, y tiene como uno de sus fines caracterizar la población migrante venezolana y colombiana que retorna al país desde Venezuela en condición de vulnerabilidad, ubicada en las zonas urbanas y periurbanas de…

Como consumidor, seguro conoces muy bien el costo de todos los alimentos que ingieres a diario. Pero, ¿sabes por qué tus alimentos tienen ese precio y por qué éste es diferente al de otros países? Pues son las políticas públicas agropecuarias, entre otros factores, los que los determinan. ¿Y sabías, además, que estas políticas también inciden de manera muy importante en la seguridad alimentaria y el cambio climático? Este curso brinda la…

The Direct Aid Program (DAP) is a small grants program managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that works directly with communities in developing countries. It focuses on supporting small-scale aid activities that deliver practical and tangible results. DAP supports local community efforts towards poverty reduction and engages a wide range of partners including non-government organisations, community groups, educational…

Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, we have expanded in size to reach more than 130 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents. For over 75 years, our mission has been to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, working in the spirit of Catholic social teaching to promote the sacredness of human life and the…

The AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund is a European Union initiative to support productive and market-integrated smallholder agriculture through the provision of financial support worth EUR 18,000,000 to agri-enterprises. The aim is to contribute to improvements in the capacity of smallholder farmers/pastoralists to practise environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture as a business in inclusive value chains. The Challenge Fund is funded…

BBSRC is a new body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. We aim to maximise the contribution of each of our component parts, working individually and collectively. We work with our many partners to benefit everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas. The purpose of this initiative is to increase…

Global trade with agricultural and food products offers a huge potential for contributing to food security, for example by enabling the provision of diverse food sources. On the other hand, trade may also jeopardize local and regional agricultural markets and producers, especially in developing countries. Further, the carbon footprint of food products and, thus, the impact on climate change, but also food scandals have increased the awareness to…

The 2019 Small-scale Forestry Conference will be held on the north shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The conference will run from July 8 through 10, 2019 with an optional post-conference tour to follow including a visit to northern Minnesota's small scale forests in July 11-12. Presentations and field sessions will explore the region's unique mix of family-owned, tribal, industrial, and public ownerships with a focus on small…

The Foundation fiat panis, which took over the task of research funding from the Eiselen Foundation in 2010, has been able to support a variety of master and doctoral theses during their field work. The main objective of the Foundation fiat panis is to promote research projects which are likely to contribute to an improvement in the nutritional situation of people in countries with food deficit. For master theses we usually grant scholarships for…