The Genesis Charitable Trust ("the Trust") provides grants for public benefit to help individuals and communities within developing countries to improve their standards of living. The Trust has broad objectives and an interest in projects that provide sustainable, long-term income generation and self-sufficiency, especially those making a demonstrable positive impact on marginalised communities currently beyond the reach of traditional government…

The Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands (SAP) is responsible for FAO's response in developing, promoting, overseeing and implementing agreed strategies to address Subregional food, agriculture and rural development priorities. The Subregional Office is based in Samoa, and is a subsidiary of FAO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP). SAP is an important FAO technical hub in direct support of 14 Pacific Island countries. The…

The International PhD Program for Agricultural Economics, Bioeconomy and Rural Development (IPPAE) is highly competitive and interdisciplinary. Its strength is that all PhD candidates have prior research or work experience in an area close to their PhD topics, which strengthens their analytical skills as well as the amount of knowledge that can be passed from peer to peer. In Giessen, the IPPAE lays its thematic focus on empirical, problem…

The Master of Agriculture and Environment deals with how to solve the big challenges in the world: food security, climate change, and management of carbon, water and the environment. Within this articulated degree students will complete a research project by innovatively addressing modern-day problems, while also honing skills in project management, communication and cross-disciplinary thinking. Some of the possible study themes will be, among…

This project aims to provide and support different alternatives to organic agriculture, allowing new consumption alternatives that are friendly to the environment. Main activities Agricultural work (plant, harvest, weed, fertilize); Harvest products growing with organic fertilizer; Backgrounds: Agriculture; Ecology; Skills: Ecology; Problem Solving; Adaptability; Citizenships: No preferences; Languages: English; Spanish; Study Levels: Bachelor.

About this event Startup Development House is a development company based in Poland. The goal of the company was to help build startups. And here we are now, a team of over 94 people, helping startups grow since 2015.Join Startup Development House on Thursday 7 October and find out. We’ve invited experts related to GreenTech - CEO, Project Manager and Developer. They will tell you about their experiences with sustainability and how it influenced…

Agriculture is New Zealand’s largest industry and helps set the country apart in the international agriculture field. New Zealand is the world’s 8th largest milk producer, is known for its commercial fishing and aquaculture industry and is the largest Venison exporter in the world. Agricultural Science interns in New Zealand can choose from internships that focus on a range of projects, including: land preservation, agri-food and agri-technology…

Healthy soils are the basis for sustainable agriculture, but they are threatened by erosion and nutrient loss, worsened by climate change. The use of artificial soils - mixtures of waste materials – would drastically increase the availability of soil for developments (ecotowns, agricultural land). In this PhD project, you will characterise major N-sources and N-cycling microbial communities in artificial soils, and use this knowledge to improve…

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference on agri-food policy issues. Over three days at the GFFA, approx. 2,000 international visitors from politics, industry, science and civil society discuss a key topic. In addition, the world’s largest informal Conference of Agriculture Ministers takes place on the third conference day as the highlight of the GFFA. Approximately 70 ministers of agriculture from around…

The African Development Bank Group is seeking a Director-Agriculture and Agro Industry based in Côte d’Ivoire to provide intellectual and strategic leadership to the Agricultural and Agro-Industry agenda of the African Development Bank Group.

P4G offers financial support and targeted assistance to select public-private partnerships that are advancing innovative strategies to achieve the following five UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture; Water and Sanitation; Clean Energy; Sustainable Cities; and Sustainable Consumption .P4G accelerates progress in the SDGs by supporting partnerships that transform key economic systems to drive the green…

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, our farmers harvest 50 percent more food after…

Concern Worldwide is seeking a Agriculture and Natural Resource Adviser to support effective programming to promote resilience in disaster-prone, fragile contexts through the provision of technical and strategic support to country programmes on climate-smart agriculture and natural resource management and through the documentation of learning on best practice.

IRES (Indepth Research Services) is offering a short course on Agricultural Value Chain Course intended for various actors in the Agricultural value chain working with communities, governments,funding agencies, research organizations and non-governmental organizations among others for AVC (Advanced Video Coding) support activities and other development.

The Discover Best Practice Farming for a Sustainable 2050 Course is based on a clear vision: imagine best practice farming for 2050, start to implement these strategies now, all the while making sure it will still be profitable. At University of Western Australia (UWA) they are doing just that with the Future Farm 2050 Project, set on a mixed-enterprise farm in Western Australia, and they want you to learn how it can be done in your part of the…

The accredited international postgraduate program Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ARTS) at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bonn cordially invites you to join the ARTS Seminar Series in winter term 2020/21 on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On February 4th Kathleen Jacobs from the Sustainability Campus of the Bonn Alliance - ICB will give a presentation on SDG12: "Examples…

The Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International is looking for a short-term consultant mainly to provide CABI with information, analysis, evidence and options to develop and put into action a corporate strategy on ‘Agriculture and Climate Change’. In particular, it will also inform CABI’s digital development strategy, as this is an area in which CABI foresees many new potential business opportunities.

SNV Netherlands Development Organization is looking for an experienced dynamic professionals on Energy & Agriculture based in Kampala, Uganda. The Energy & Agriculture Expert has the responsibility of the development and implementation of business cases whereby renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions are integrated to develop climate proof value chains.

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the event will highlight the key role of the agricultural sectors in supporting the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement, with a primary focus on limiting the rise of global temperatures, also directly recognizes the “fundamental priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger, and the particular vulnerabilities of food production systems to the impacts of climate change”…

La Chambre d'agriculture de la Marne est un organisme consulaire chargé de la représentation des intérêts des agriculteurs de la Marne et propose un appui aux exploitants et collectivités. Elle accompagne les agriculteurs vers de nouvelles méthodes de production, conciliant productivité et préservation des ressources en eau. Elle recherche un(e) conseiller(e) en agriculture biologique. Motivé(e) par l’innovation et sa mise en œuvre, au contact…

Worldwide, a variety of processes puts increasing pressure on water resources. Global climate change causes temperatures to rise and precipitation and rainfall patterns change. An increasing degree of urbanization causes people to move from the countryside to the cities. This process creates increasing competition over water resources, like rivers and groundwater, between cities and their surrounding areas. Furthermore, population growth and…