Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship for Developing Countries, Canada

Brief Description This Fellowship (a bequest from Helen S. Bentley and C. Fred Bentley) provides assistance to Canadian and developing-country graduate students with a university degree in agriculture, forestry or biology, who wish to undertake postgraduate, applied, on-farm research with cooperating farmers in a developing country. In principle, IDRC supports research on all parts of the developing regions of the...

Postdoc position in Biochar / Soil Ecology at Wageningen University, Netherlands

Brief Description We are looking for a postdoc to study the effects of biochar on soil biota and plant-soil interactions. Future energy demands may be met through pyrolosis of biomass, leading to `waste` products such as biochar. Biochar, similar to charcoal, has unique biochemical properties; notably being highly stable against decay. Therefore, recent studies have suggested that adding biochar to soils may...

Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis at Erasmus Mundus, Europe

Brief Description The European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis aims at providing a high quality education in designing and assessing public policies targeted to the agricultural and food sector as well as the rural environment. This European Master responds to the increasing need to better understand and anticipate the various and often complex socio-economic and environmental effects...

150 CUD Scholarships for Developing Countries at University Commission for Development (CUD), Belgium

Brief Description The University Commission for Development (CUD) or (CIUF) is responsible for the implementation of the policy of university cooperation for development. Within the programme for international courses and training programmes, CIUF grants 150 scholarships for participation into the courses and 70 for participation into the training programmes. From the academic year 2012-2013 on, up to 150...

Research Scholarship at The University of Queensland, Australia

Brief Description The Centre for Pesticide Application and Safety (CPAS) is a national scientific research and training group located within the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at The University of Queensland, Gatton campus near Brisbane. It has been working for many years on pesticide exposure research and training, both within Australia and internationally. This is an excellent opportunity for a...

Ten post-doctoral researcher positions at the University of Eastern, Finland

Brief Description The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university. The university`s areas of expertise in research are Forests and the Environment, Health and Well-being, and New Technologies and Materials. In addition to the above areas of expertise, the university has also selected two regionally and nationally significant fields in which the university`s research activities will be further...

PhD Position in Soil Science at Technische Universität München, Germany

Brief Description The Soil Science Group at Technische Universität München (TUM) offers a doctoral researcher position by December 1st, 2011 for three years. Salary is TV-L E13 (65%) according to the German TV-L system (Tarifvertrag für den Öffentlichen Dienst der Länder). Our research is focussed on the characterization of soil organic matter and soil organic matter interactions and turnover under different...

PhD Scholarship in Food Security at The Food Security Center (FSC), Germany

Brief Description The Food Security Center (FSC) is a university center of excellence in development collaboration at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. FSC is one of five excellence centers of the pro-gram “exceed – Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation”, which is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation...