Friday, February 05, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: Sustainability Science, African Regional Perspectives
Nowhere is sustainability more important than in Africa. Sustainability Science’s special feature on African Regional Perspectives seeks research contributions with a sharp focus on where particular problems have the greatest effect, and how regional constraints and opportunities will affect possible solutions. Regions can be defined according to the scope of the research – along political, geographic, ecological, economic, cultural or climatic lines. [more information]
Deadline: June 15, 2010
TRAINING: International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) Research Program: Fall 2010
In Fall 2010, the nine-week IFRI training course will be offered at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, with Arun Agrawal and Lauren Persha. Arun Agrawal is Associate Research Dean and Professor at University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Lauren Persha is the IFRI Postdoctoral Fellow. The course explores theoretical and methodological approaches for exploring human-environment interactions. It focuses on community level forest management, and the interaction of institutional, socioeconomic and ecological factors that influence sustainability. It also specifically exposes students to the IFRI research program and provides training in data collection methods, including participatory techniques, individual and group interviews, and forest measurement. Students apply their field research training in a forest community in Southern Michigan. Trainees also gain first hand exposure to the unique IFRI database and learn how to enter data and use queries to create datasets. [more information]
Deadline: April 1, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
This Week’s Posts
- EMPLOYMENT: IFPRI Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow, Uganda
- Deadline: open
- EMPLOYMENT: FAO Fishery Planning Analyst
- Deadline: February 5, 2010
- EMPLOYMENT: Uni Hohenheim: Postdoctoral Position - Land Use, Climate Change and Bioenergy (3 years, full-time)
- Deadline: April 1, 2010
- FELLOWSHIP: Community Forestry: Trees and People — John G. Bene Fellowship
- Deadline: March 1, 2010
- FELLOWSHIP: African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)
- Deadline: March 22, 2010
- FELLOWSHIP: Leopold Leadership Program
- Deadline: April 12, 2010
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Transport and Sustainable Development
- Deadline: April 15, 2010
- CALL FOR ARTICLES/BRIEFS: Best Practices in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Development
- Deadline: June 5, 2010
EMPLOYMENT: IFPRI Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow, Uganda
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Fellow for its Uganda Agricultural Strategy Support Programme (USSP) for a two year, fixed-term, renewable appointment. Under the USSP, IFPRI supports the government of Uganda by undertaking policy research and developing practical and comprehensive conceptual frameworks and decision support systems for agricultural strategy development in a manner which strengthens the capacity of appropriate national institutions to formulate and implement relevant strategies and to monitor and evaluate their progress against targets.
The Fellow will be responsible for (a) conducting research and developing policy advice in response to demand from in-country partners, (b) capacity strengthening in policy research, and (c) supporting policy outreach to a wide range of stakeholders concerned with agriculture and rural development in Uganda. [more information]
Deadline: open
EMPLOYMENT: Uni Hohenheim: Postdoctoral Position - Land Use, Climate Change and Bioenergy (3 years, full-time)
The Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics - Chair for Land Use Economics, Professor Dr. Thomas Berger, searches for a highly qualified candidate at post-doctoral level. The position will focus on research into agricultural land use under climate change with special consideration of long- term adaptation strategies. The candidate will contribute to the joint research efforts of meteorologists, soil scientists, agronomists and agricultural economists at Universität Hohenheim. [more information]
Deadline: April 1, 2010
CALL FOR ARTICLES/BRIEFS: Best Practices in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Development
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) announces its call for briefs and articles related to Best Practices in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Development to be included in JAFSCD Vol. 1, Issue 2.
Briefs, case studies, and articles should focus on illustrative programs or projects, survey results, literature reviews, and public policy related — but not limited to — land-use planning and regulation, health ordinances or their implementation, training and educational programs, marketing systems or value chains, partnership development, systems approaches, issues of scale, and farm-neighbor relations. We are particularly interested in holistic approaches that combine community and economic development with environmental protection.
More information here.
Deadline: June 5, 2010
FELLOWSHIP: African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)
Helping poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa overcome food crises and improve livelihoods is a complex challenge. It requires bold, innovative action. An essential step is strengthening the voice of Africa’s knowledgeable women, both on the farm and in the laboratories. Acting on this conviction, in 2007 the CGIAR Gender & Diversity Program launched African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). AWARD offers two-year fellowships to fast track the careers of African women delivering pro-poor research and development.
African women working in agricultural research and development from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia who have completed a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in selected disciplines are invited to apply for the 2010 Award Fellowship. Applicants must be nationals of the above listed countries and be available in Africa throughout the fellowship period.
More information here.
Deadline: March 22, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
FELLOWSHIP: Community Forestry: Trees and People — John G. Bene Fellowship
This fellowship provides assistance to Canadian graduate students undertaking research on the relationship between forest resources and the social, economic, cultural, and environmental welfare of people in developing countries. The successful candidate will be the one whose work most benefits the lives of the less privileged people in the developing country. [more information]
Deadline: March 1, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: Transport and Sustainable Development
Natural Resources Forum—A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, a quarterly journal issued by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations calls for papers for a special issue on transport, to be published in November 2010. Articles submitted for this special section should be relevant to policy-making, and should address transport from a sustainable development perspective, i.e. treating economic, social, and environmental aspects in an integrated way. Download the call for papers (pdf).
Deadline: April 15, 2010
FELLOWSHIP: Leopold Leadership Program
The Leopold Leadership Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment invites mid-career academic environmental scientists from North America (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) to apply for the 2011 Leopold Leadership Fellowships. The program seeks candidates with terminal degrees in a broad range of disciplines including the biological, physical, and social sciences and technical, medical, and engineering fields related to the environment. Applicants must be employed by an academic institution in North America, be tenured or tenure-track (preferably associate professor level or equivalent or above), and be active in teaching and research. [more information]
Deadline: April 12, 2010
EMPLOYMENT: FAO Fishery Planning Analyst
Under the general supervision of the Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division, and in collaboration with other technical officers, the incumbent will provide advice on fisheries governance, management and development. In particular, will:
- conduct analytical and/or descriptive studies of social, economic, and institutional aspects of capture fisheries at the various relevant levels of analysis, in an interdisciplinary context;
- prepare and participate in missions to assist countries requesting advice on the governance, management and/or development of fisheries;
- prepare technical documentation and papers for discussion and publication;
- prepare and participate in technical meetings, expert and/or technical consultations on fishery governance, management and development, including contributing to the preparation of background documents and to the reporting and dissemination of results;
- participate in capacity-building activities designed to improve national capacities in the methodologies and concepts of social, economic and institutional analysis of fisheries as well as in the elaboration of policies, strategies and plans aiming at strengthening fisheries management and governance;
- provide technical backstopping to FAO field projects on social, economic and institutional issues and factors concerning fisheries management, development and governance;
- assist in the coordination and exchange of information on social, economic and institutional aspects of fishery management, development and governance;
- perform other related duties as required.
More information here.
Deadline: February 5, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
This Week’s Posts
- EMPLOYMENT: UNU-INRA Director (Ghana)
- Deadline: open
- FELLOWSHIP: Compton Foundation/PRB International Fellows
- Deadline: February 22, 2010
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Josef G. Knoll European Science Award
- Deadline: April 30, 2010
- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Prosper.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development
- Deadline: May 3, 2010
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Women's Worlds 2011
- Deadline: September 15, 2010
- FUNDING: DFID’s Development Innovation Fund
- PUBLICATIONS: Two New CAPRi Working Papers
- PUBLICATION: Foreign land purchases for agriculture: what impact on sustainable development?
- PUBLICATIONS: New Analyses by the Rights and Resources Initiative
- ONLINE RESOURCE: Mapping Population and Climate Change
- ONLINE RESOURCE: Gender, Agriculture, and Land on Facebook
PUBLICATIONS: Two New CAPRi Working Papers
CAPRi has recently published two new CAPRi Working Papers, which are now online and available for download. Abstracts are provided below.
CAPRI Working Paper 95: Looking Beyond the Obvious: Uncovering the Features of Natural Resource Conflicts in Uganda, by Ephraim Nkonya and Helen Markelova:
Disputes over land, water, forests, rangelands, and other resources, both privately and commonly-held, are omnipresent across Africa and increasing in number due to the socioeconomic and environmental changes happening on micro- and macro-levels. Communities in Africa have a variety of mechanisms rooted in customary and statutory institutions to deal with disputes. This paper uses community-level survey data from Uganda to investigate the determinants of natural resource conflicts and the type of institutions people turn to for conflict resolution. The findings identify four primary types of conflicts (over private land boundaries, common-pool resources other than water, water resources, and conflicts over other resources) and reveal that several factors such as agroecological potential, poverty level, population density, and proximity to roads and markets affect the likelihood of a resource-related conflict. The results also show that even though most people turn to the local government (a formal institution) for arbitration, customary institutions still play an important role in conflict management, especially for the poorer communities where formal institutions are weak. The type of conflict also matters for the type of institution chosen to resolve it with the conflicts over commons being mediated through customary institutions, while all the others are usually channeled though the local government. The findings point to the importance of both customary and formal institutions for conflict resolution options in Uganda, highlighting the need to examine their potential complementarities. [download]
CAPRI Working Paper 96: Beyond the Bari: Gender, Groups, and Social Relations in Rural Bangladesh, by Agnes R. Quisumbing:
This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men’s and women’s ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively correlated with wealth, this study finds that group membership, which is driven mostly by women’s membership in NGOs, is progressive, with higher participation rates among the poor and those with smaller sizes of owned land. This is in large part due to the targeting mechanism and pro-poor orientation of NGOs. In contrast to group membership, however, the strength of relationships with most types of influential persons increases with human and physical wealth. Consistent with a collective model of household decision-making, husband’s and wife’s human and physical assets do not have the same influence on group membership and relationship strength. Indicators of relative bargaining power within marriage also have differential effects on group membership and social relations. Women who bring more assets to marriage, who live closer to their natal villages, and who have sons are more likely to belong to a group. Assets at marriage and distance to village of husbands and wives also have differential effects on relationship strength, indicating that spouses may not share the same preferences nor pool their resources when investing in relationships with powerful and influential people. [download]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
ONLINE RESOURCE: Mapping Population and Climate Change
Population Action International has produced an online interactive world map: “Mapping Population and Climate Change.” Climate change impacts, demographic trends and reproductive health needs are likely to affect countries’ abilities to adapt to climate change. The map highlights the potential impacts of climate change on people and the environment, projected population changes in the short- and long-term, and why responses to climate change should include family planning and reproductive health. View the map here.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Josef G. Knoll European Science Award
This science award has been presented every two years since 1986 with the aim of supporting young academics whose work focuses on helping to reduce hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The award is named after Professor Dr. Josef G. Knoll, the pioneer of agricultural research in Germany with regard to developing countries.
The objective of the award is to encourage young academics whose research concentrates on solutions to mitigate hunger in food deficit countries. The research findings must be user-oriented and suitable to contribute towards:
- improving the status of food and nutrition security of a certain local population and
- reducing the impact of hunger (undernutrition and malnutrition).
Eligible are individuals under the age of 40 and teams whose members have not reached their 40th birthday by the application deadline, providing they have successfully completed a doctorate at a European university.
More information available here (see the link to download the application on the right-hand side of the page).
Deadline: April 30, 2010
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