The Crawford Fund International Agriculture Student Awards are now open.
The Crawford Fund International are seeking applications from university students undertaking degrees in agriculture, animal production, fisheries, forestry, natural resource management or any area related to food and nutrition security.
Job title: Technical Training Specialist
Reporting to: Project Manager
Key peer group: Project Team
Location: Project Sites (Tando Allahyar/Matiari/Sanghar/Mirpurkhas/Umerkot)
Purpose of the role:
Four food crops - wheat, maize, rice and soybean - provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. This begs the question: What has become of the thousands of other crops that farmers have been producing for centuries?
Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management) is an initiated international learning network to promote local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and Natural resource management.
Prolinnova started with a first grant from IFAD as a GFAR Global Partnership Programme (GPP).
Dr. Ismahane Elouafi has studied plant breeding, agriculture and genetics, and in November became the first Chief Scientist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. The staff of GFAR Secretariat, hosted by FAO’s new Office of Innovation (OIN) which Dr. Elouafi heads, congratulate her on her new role.
The Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) will open a research and training centre aiming to promote modern farming technology development in the agricultural sector.
