The Future Agricultures Consortium announces the third call of its grant programme to support talented young researchers working on African agricultural policy “FAC’s Early Career Fellowship Programme (ECFP)”.
The ECFP is available to the professionals who just started their career by working in Africa and the UK. Both full-time and part-time appointments are available and all fellowships will include mentorship support from a senior FAC researcher affiliated with a FAC partner institution. The awards will support original field-based and policy-oriented research on African agriculture.
Three types of award available include:
- Africa-based, one-year full-time post-Masters or post-doc fellowship
- Africa-based, one-year part-time post-Masters or post-doc fellowship
- UK-based six-month full-time post-doc fellowship
Applications should be in line with one of FAC’s eight thematic areas:
- Climate Change
- Commercialization’s
- Growth & social protection
- Land
- Pastoralism
- Policy Processes
- Science, Technology and Innovation
- Young People and Agriculture
This year, special consideration will be given to applications which correspond to the following Special Topics. Applicants are however not limited to these topics so long as their application are in line with one of FAC’s eight themes.
The deadline for applications is 17th February 2012.
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