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Exploratory meeting on social entrepreneurship for food security
March 27, 2015News
Exploratory meeting on social entrepreneurship for food security
Theme: Social Entrepreneurship

On February 27, 2015, a group of 35 enthusiastic social entrepreneurs and impact investors discussed the role of social entrepreneurship for food and nutrition security.  During a lively ‘Pop-up Friday’ meeting, enabled by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP), practitioners and academics explored the practical and strategic challenges that social entrepreneurs face and how »

Inclusive growth and achievement of higher quality standards
March 25, 2015News
Inclusive growth and achievement of higher quality standards

The F&BKP together with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is preparing a research about the question “Do higher quality standards hinder inclusive growth / favour exclusive growth?” The assignment aims to provide Food Security professionals insight into the complex relations between inclusive growth and the achievement of higher quality »

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation - Round 4 open
March 19, 2015News
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation – Round 4 open

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation released its fourth request for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to commercialize agricultural technologies in smallholder markets in Feed the Future countries. Partnering for Innovation Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is a USAID funded program focused on finding and commercializing agricultural technologies that can help improve the lives of smallholder farmers. The »

Carl K. Eicher Award for best doctoral dissertation
March 10, 2015News
Carl K. Eicher Award for best doctoral dissertation

The International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) is calling for nominations for the first IAAE 2015 Carl K. Eicher Award for the best doctoral dissertation on agricultural economics applied to an Africa problem. Family, friends and colleagues of the late Carl K. Eicher have established a fund under the IAAE to support an award for »

Vacancy Director General at AVRDC
March 10, 2015News
Vacancy Director General at AVRDC

AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center (Taiwan), has a vacancy for a new Director General to lead the institution to a new level of research excellence strengthened by partnerships with public, nongovernmental, and private sector organizations worldwide. The current Director General, Dr. Dyno Keatinge, will retire in April 2016 after eight years in the position. AVRDC aims »

CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals - Call for Doctoral Research Grants
March 5, 2015News
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals – Call for Doctoral Research Grants

The Dryland Cereals Scholarship Program of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals is sponsoring and supporting a call for Doctoral Research Grants. The call is designed to increase agricultural research capacity of dryland cereal crops, i.e. barley, finger millet, pearl millet and sorghum. The application deadline March 30, 2015. Where appropriate, the grantees are »