The ever-estimable Atul Gawande has published in The New Yorker this week the commencement address he delivered on 10 Jun 2016 at the California Institute of Technology. It’s worth a close read. Continue reading
Category Archives: Scholarship
Animal Production / Crop-Livestock / Farming Systems / ILRI / Kenya / Philippines / PIL / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / Scholarship / Trade / Value Chains
American agricultural economist Steve Staal leads livestock policy, trade and value chain research at ILRI
Steve Staal, who for the past 15 months has served the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Los Baños, the Philippines, as regional representative for East and South Asia, this month takes up leadership of ILRI’s Policy, Trade and Value Chains program and is now based in Nairobi. Continue reading
Pan African University: Call for MSc and PhD applications for 2015/2016 academic year
Young, qualified, talented and enterprising applicants from African countries and the Diaspora are invited to apply to join Masters or PhD degree programmes in ANY of the following four PAU institutes listed in the call. Continue reading
Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF) – Call for applications 2015
The Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub capacity building program, which is also known as the Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF), is seeking applications for short- to medium-term research projects that can be undertaken at the BecA-ILRI Hub in Nairobi, Kenya. Continue reading
Netherlands tailor-made training program initiative (Kenya): Call for applications
Call for Applications for a Netherlands Funded Tailor-Made Training Program initiative (TMT) for Kenya Continue reading
International Foundation of Science (IFS) call for individual research grants
The International Foundation for Science (IFS) calls for individual research grants by early-career scientists in the developing world to undertake research on the sustainable management of biological and water resources Continue reading
Fellowship opportunities with Borlaug LEAP for African students
The Norman E. Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP) is seeking applications for fellowship grant opportunities for Master’s and PhD students from sub-Saharan Africa Continue reading
Animal Diseases / Award / ECF / ILRI / ILVAC / LiveGene / Research / Scholarship / Tick Unit / Vaccines
Freie Universität seeks research assistant/PhD candidate to work on live vaccines against Theileriosis
The Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine of the Freie Universität Berlin seeks a highly motivated and creative person who is interested in working within a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate must have a microbiology, immunology or veterinary degree and should be willing to travel and work in Africa for periods of up to several months. Continue reading
Africa / Award / CapDev / Scholarship
2016 Australia Awards Scholarships are now open
The objective of the Australia Awards – Africa Fellowships is to develop the capacity and leadership skills of Africans so they can contribute more effectively to development in their home countries. Continue reading
U.S. Department of Agriculture – Borlaug fellowships 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2015 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. Continue reading
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