The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Research Program Manager (RPM) Social Systems has the opportunity to make a real difference, enriching lives and livelihoods by using social science insights to help achieve more sustainable, equitable and resilient food, farming and natural resource use systems. They will initiate, drive, manage and deliver a diverse portfolio of social science led research projects, working with other programs with social science dimensions and with a wide range of stakeholders across the Indo-Pacific region.
Job Description and Key Responsibilities
The primary goal of the Project Technical Consultant is to develop the “Regional Assessment Report on the Status of CT Recognition and Implementation Mechanisms in the Context of Food Security”. Specifically, he/ she will:
Finalize the report/ study plan, outlining the following:
The food security debate is no longer limited to yields and calories. Increasingly, we are realizing that food insecurity isn’t only about poverty, but that hunger sprouts from inequality, environmental destruction and biodiversity loss.
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA, Jan 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The African Development Bank plans to deploy billions of dollars to help young people build a new digitally-driven model of agriculture that can feed the continent’s people and boost prosperity even as the planet heats up, its president said.
At a global summit this week, the bank and the Global Center on Adaptation announced an initiative to strengthen African efforts to become more resilient to extreme weather and rising seas, threats worsened by fast-accelerating climate change.
The Corporate Communications department of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is seeking a candidate for a one-year, paid consultancy.
The Junior Communications Consultant, Digital will be based in the organization’s global headquarters in Texcoco, 40 km outside of Mexico City. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she/he will start working remotely, but will shift to in-office work once it is safe.
She/he will work full-time in the following duties:
COP-26—the latest global gathering of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—meets in Glasgow this November. Six years after the Paris climate conference, the conference will mark the passage of new “Nationally Determined Contributions:” country commitments to reduce carbon emissions ahead of 2030. But it will also revisit a number of long-time controversies, including financing to help developing countries respond to the risk of climate change, carbon markets, and taxes and tariffs on carbon.
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT®, is a not-for-profit agricultural research for development organization with partners in over 100 countries. Please refer to our website for more information: www.cimmyt.org
CIMMYT is seeking an innovative scientist, for the position of Maize Breeder – Easter Africa to work in the Global Maize Program.
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