Opportunities

The PO will report directly to the Deputy Director, IFDC East and Southern Africa and work with IFDC field and HQ staff.

Vladimir Milovanovic, a Ph.D. student at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS), is leading a project focused on rural aging and food security. He is seeking responsible and dedicated Bachelor or Master’s students within Mumbai region to be part of the project supported by the Internal Grant Agency.

The project involves 8 days of surveying within Dadra and Nagar Haveli union territory, starting on November 12th, 2017. Accommodation, food, and transportation expenses will be covered, and remuneration of $250 will be provided.

The World Vegetable Centre (WorldVeg) is a non-profit, autonomous international agricultural research centre with headquarters in Taiwan and regional offices around the globe. WorldVeg conducts research and development programmes that contribute to improved incomes and diets in the developing world through increased production and consumption of nutritious and health-promoting vegetables. WorldVeg’s Regional Office for West and Central Africa (WCA)-Coastal and Humid Regions in Cotonou, Benin Republic conducts vegetable research and development and provides training and information services with the goal of improving nutrition and livelihoods among small-scale farmers and consumers. For more information on The World Vegetable Centre, please visit the website.

WorldVeg is seeking for a motivated and qualified consultant to conduct dry season agronomic, cropping systems research, and development activities in Northern Ghana from October 1, 2017. The consultant report technically to the Project Manager for Vegetable value chains and administratively to the Regional Director of Worldveg WCA-Coastal and Humid Regions. The position is only open to nationals from Ghana or other national with work permit for Ghana.

The Joint Research Unit specializing in functional ecology and soil and agroecosystem biogeochemistry (Eco & Sols) is studying two major soil services as a support in ecosystems, primary production and cycles of major nutrients, and regulatory services the environment, the storage of carbon in soils and the emission of greenhouse gases. The characterization of soils and plants is essential to the research carried out.

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CIRAD, the Center for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development, is recruiting an "Impact of Research" mission, specializing in project design, construction of the project impact path and method monitoring and evaluation of agronomic research projects for development. Positioned within the Valorisation and Innovation delegation, it will work closely with the "Impress" Innovation-Impact settlement project, which has developed a specific methodology for integrating the impact into the programming of CIRAD.

This operational role will consist in helping CIRAD teams to set up and follow convincing research projects, combining scientific excellence, relevance to development goals and impacts. It will concentrate on deploying the ImpresS ex ante method as part of the assembly of the research projects of the various departments and to support the monitoring and evaluation and the learning of certain specific projects. CIRAD has developed a participatory method of impact assessment in the framework of a project called ImpresS, which in its ex-post version has been applied to a collection of case studies. The ImpresS approach in its ex-ante version aims to get the teams who set up research projects to better describe their path of impact on different aspects of development,

Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) is looking for a young motivated person for the full time position of Secretary General. Key responsibilities include mainly administration, fundraising, managing a team, development and coordination of youth projects.

We offer full-time work in a young international team, coordination of youth projects, flexibility in working schedule and travelling abroad. Starting date of the job will be November or December 2017 with one or two months of transfer period with the leaving Secretary General.

TFT (The Forest Trust) is an international fast growing and dynamic non-profit organization which helps companies transform their supply chains across the world for the benefit of people and nature.

TFT currently has offices in 16 countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Ecuador, India, and several locations within West Africa, Europe and the Americas. TFT is seeking an experienced, articulate, well-organized and motivated professional to become our Ecuador country manager based in Quito, Ecuador.

The European Cooperative for Rural Development (EUCORD) is a Brussels-based non-profit organization incorporated under Dutch Cooperative Law since 2003. 

EUCORD’s mission is to increase farmers’ capacity to sustainably grow quality crops matched to commercial needs of the industry and in doing so, increase food security, develop the private sector and improve the livelihoods of rural communities. 

The Project “Enhancing Sustainable Income in the Philippines (ESIP)“ is a three-year (January 2017 – December 2019) livelihoods project funded by Swiss Solidarity and implemented by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation and People In Need (PIN). 

The overall objective of the Project is to increase the income and improve the resilience of 12,000 poor and vulnerable women and men farmers from Eastern Samar Province as a result of strengthening and development of their income generating opportunities. The project adopts Market System Development Approach.

A new call for experts is open for Cocoa in Ghana. The study will in particular analyse through the VCA4D methodology the differences between Fair Trade and conventional systems.

The deadline for proposing CVs the 15th September COB at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The Regional Food Security and Livelihoods Manager is responsible for overall direct technical and administrative implementation of Food Security and Livelihoods activities at State/County level and will support field staff in those locations. The Manager will provide technical advice and support to project staff to ensure program objectives are successfully achieved. She/he is responsible for ensuring all food security and livelihoods programming is of excellent technical quality; conducting market assessments, feasibility studies and ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of guiding principles we call “The Heartbeat.” This includes our Values, Vision, and Purpose, which serve as the explanation of who we are and how we work as an organization. Together we follow God’s call responding to human suffering and graduating communities from extreme poverty.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within Shelter, Education, Food security, Legal Assistance, Camp Management Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sectors.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been implementing projects for Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees in Northern Uganda, West Nile and South Western respectively, since 1997. Having smoothly phased-out by end of August 2014 in the North, NRC reopened from September 2014, to complement efforts of the Government of Uganda and UNHCR in supporting the South Sudanese Refugees currently settled in the Districts of Adjumani, Yumbe and Arua in West Nile. With funding from SIDA, NMFA, ECHO, UNHCR and UNICEF, NRC is implementing integrated projects in Adjumani/Arua/Yumbe refugee settlements. NRC now seeks to recruit a Project Assistant in charge of the Livelihood Project in Imvepi

The focus of the role is to provide technical expertise to the EFSVL team, for whom market-based (cash and voucher) programming is relatively new for Oxfam in Nigeria. The role is also to support and lead the scale up and maintain the EFSVL program pace in Nigeria, through contributing the strategic direction, ensuring quality and standard of accountability in EFSVL, providing technical support to the Team, build the capacity of officers and assistants assigned including those of partners and timely contribute to proposal writing, reporting and Situation reports.

The International Potato Center (CIP) seeks a highly talented Communication and Knowledge Management Officer to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a major regional sweet potato research project through communication and knowledge management.

The Center: CIP is a not-for-profit international agricultural research-for-development organization with a focus on potato, sweet potato, and Andean roots and tubers. Its vision is of roots and tubers improving the lives of the poor.

Access Agriculture was established in 2012 as an international NGO with a Secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya, to support structured on-line viewing, downloading, and physical distribution of quality agricultural training videos in local and international languages. The organisation also has a regional office in Cotonou, Benin, as well contact points in Bangladesh and India, and is expanding its scope to Latin America.

Access Agriculture seeks to increase awareness of its video platforms and to strengthen synergies with other social media platforms by engaging a resourceful, vibrant, self-motivated, hands-on person to handle its social media function.

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) is an umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Africa. FARA complements the innovative activities of national, international and sub-regional research institutions to deliver more responsive and effective services to its stakeholders. It plays advocacy and coordination roles for agricultural research for development, while the national agricultural research systems (NARS), advanced research institutions (ARIs) and international agricultural research centres (IARCs) develop and promote the adoption of improved technologies and policies along the research-to-development continuum in their respective countries and jurisdictions. Since it was established in 2002 FARA has been able to develop several African-wide initiatives through consultation with stakeholders.

FARA is seeking to engage a Gender, Youth and Agribusiness Consultant to work closely with its core programmes in implementing its MTOP2R

The agroeconomic modelling group of the Technical University of Madrid is looking for agroeconomic modellers in the field of water-energy-food nexus.

The selected candidate will:

The ScienceCampus Halle was founded in close collaboration between the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and its neighboring Leibniz Institutes to establish an inter- and transdisciplinary research center focusing on the plant-based bioeconomy. In particular, it aims to bridge the relevant disciplines from molecular to societal levels. To further strengthen its links and competences the ScienceCampus is inviting applications for a

The ScienceCampus seeks to appoint an excellent junior scientist with a high potential for developing an internationally recognized research agenda on economic and institutional challenges of the plant-based bioeconomy. Eligible candidates should have a doctoral degree in Economics, Agricultural Economics or a related field, including an emerging track record in their postdoctoral phase with documented interests and competences in relevant economic fields such as entrepreneurship, business economics, markets and trade, institutional governance, political economy as well as societal acceptance and business ethics of the bioeconomy.

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries.

Headquartered in Colombo, Srilanka, with regional offices and projects across Asia and Africa, IWMI employs around 300 staff. The Institute works in partnership with governments, research organizations, civil society and the private sector to improve water management to have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and the environment.

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The Wangari Maathai Scholarhip is co-sponsored by the Kenya Community Development Foundation, the Greenbelt Movement, and the Rockefeller Foundation to support young Kenyan women (ages 18 – 25) for university studies in environmental conservation. One individual is chosen each year. The selected individual must demonstrate an ability to successfully mobilize people and provide leadership in environmental advocacy. The scholarship is limited to applicants who are enrolled in Kenyan universities. The application deadline is 30 July 2017. Link