Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Postdoctoral Fellowship in Food and Nutrition Ethics

The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is pleased to announce a specialized postdoctoral fellowship in the area of food, agriculture and nutrition ethics.

This two year post-doctoral fellowship seeks a new fellow to begin September 2016. The main goal of the fellowship is to launch the career of a bioethics scholar, with a focus on ethical issues and controversies of the global food system and its implications on food security, as well as human health and nutrition in developed and developing countries.

2015 Global Landscapes Forum

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Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture - AFRICA EDITION

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Webinar with Dr. Howarth Bouis, founder of HarvestPlus

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IMMANA Postdoctoral Fellowships

IMMANA Postdoctoral Fellowships on Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions are now open for applications under Round 2. 

IMMANA Fellowships aim to create a cadre of emerging leaders in agriculture, nutrition, and health research. The IMMANA programme offers six Fellowships per year as part of which the Fellows will be provided a 12-month stipend and will work under the supervision of two mentors.

More information: http://immana.lcirah.ac.uk/immana-fellowships

Setting up a Global Linked Data Catalog of Datasets for Agriculture

The movement to share data has been on the rise in the last decade and lately in the agricultural domain. Similarly platforms for publishing scientific and sta-tistical datasets have sprouted and have improved visibility and availability of datasets. Yet there are still constraints in making datasets discoverable and re-usable. Commonly agreed semantics, authority lists to index datasets and stand-ard formats and protocols to expose data are now essential. This paper explains how the CIARD RING provides a global linked data catalog of datasets for ag-riculture.

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