Deadline: 1 October 2014
The International Development Research Center of Canada (IDRC) is accepting fellowship applications from citizens of developing nations. This is the Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship program supporting the graduate students with university degree in agriculture, forestry, or biology undertake applied, on-farm research with cooperating farmers in one or more developing countries.
Projects should be planned and executed in cooperation with an international agricultural research centre, or with a developing-country institution involved in agricultural research that has an applied, on-farm orientation. Proposals must present plans for on-farm experiments on smallholder farms that have potential to improve the lives of farming households and to preserve or improve crops yields.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a citizen of a developing country or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
- Applicants must be enrolled full-time full-time at a recognized university at the master’s, doctoral, or post-doctoral level in Canada or in a developing country for the duration of the award period.
- Applicants must have a university degree in agriculture, forestry, or biology.
- Research proposal must focus on very simple cropping-systems research that can benefit smallholder farmers in developing countries, especially rural women farmers.
- Applicants must be able to provide evidence that she will be supported by local institutions that have a good working relationship with target communities, farmers, and/or extension agencies.
- Applicants must be able to provide evidence that a large part or all of the research will be carried out on the farms of resource-poor or smallholder farmers.
- Applicants must be able to provide evidence that farmers will actively participate in the experiment by developing a simple on-farm experimental designs.
For more information, please visit The Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship.
