The Adaptive Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds: Policies, Conservation and Use short course will be held from 29 October to 16 November 2012 in India.
The training programme is organized by the Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research Centre. Candidates from the following developing countries can apply for fellowship opportunity to participate in this course through the Nuffic – Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP).
List of eligible countries for NFP: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Autonomous Palestinian Territories, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, DR. Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
The overall objective of the training programme is to enhance the participants’ capabilities to associate CBM as conservation and to use strategies of resilience towards climate change. The programme pays special attention to participatory and multi-stakeholder approaches, which are crucial to making it work. It further places CBM into local, national and international conservation and climate change policy contexts.
The training focuses on following topics:
- Participatory learning and action research Multi-stakeholder processes and social learning
- Conservation strategies
- Climate change
- Community empowerment and resilience
- CBM methodology and practices
- Genetic resources and climate change policy frameworks
The deadline to submit applications for securing fellowships for this course through The Netherlands Fellowship Programme is 1 May 2012. For more information, visit this link.
