The Future Agriculture Consortium, through its “Young People and Agri-Food” theme has this Small Grant Competition 2012-2013 which seeks to address three constraints to more appropriate policy in relation to the “young people and agriculture” problem in Africa.
Grants of around UK£2,000 will be made available on a competitive basis to applicants who are in a position to make a serious contribution to the post-conference research agenda.
Since its incorporation in 2010, the theme has worked to understand the framings and narratives which inform policy relating to young people and agriculture and to begin to reframe the “problem” in a way which will allow research to more effectively contribute to evidence-based policy processes.
Grants of this size are not sufficient to initiate and complete new work, so the competition is looking to identify and fund “value-added” activities as an additional field visit; additional data analysis; a specific writing project; attendance at a conference; or organizing a conference panel. This small grants programme is open to bona fide researchers at all levels. It is expected that most awards will be given to African researchers; however others are also encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 15 June, 2012
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