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American UniversitiesWeb site maintained by the University of Florida, USA, giving a list of universities offering degree programmes in the USA. It also provides links to Canadian Universities (maintained by the University of Waterloo) and international universities around the world (maintained by General Education Online (GEO).
General Education OnlineProvides links to almost 7,000 colleges and universities from over 160 countries, making it the largest and most diverse higher-education facilities listing in the world.
INFOAGRAR Training DirectoryInfoAgrar's challenging Training Opportunities includes information on training events of short- to long-term duration. It contains a deliberate selection of the large number of courses available in the very diverse field of agricultural development.
Mejorando la Educación de Postgrado en Manejo - Catálogo de maestríasThis Web site in Spanish is a joint initiative by the Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina (CONDESAN) and the Análisis de Sistemas de Producción Agropecuaria (ASPA) of the University of Caldas in Colombia. It contains a listing of Master's Degree programs in Latin America for natural resources.
NUFFIC - Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education Detailed information on almost 500 courses, from short training seminars to fully-fledged study programmes, given in the Netherlands, a list of educational institutes in the Netherlands, and information on Netherlands Government and other Scholarships.
UNEP Environmental Education and Training Opportunities List UNEP Directory ET Worldwide, which gives a listing of environmental education and training (EE&T) opportunities around the world, as well as information on financial assistance for environmental studies abroad. The list contains information from all regions, starting with Africa and Asia/Pacific, followed by Europe, Latin America, North America and Global.
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs: FULBRIGHT PROGRAM The Program provides grants in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, biological sciences, ecology, and rural development and some themes such as as physiology, molecular biology, plant pathology and plant disease management.
International Fellows Program: The Santa Fe InstituteThe International Fellowship Program fosters the further development of academic and interdisciplinary research activities in targeted countries throughout the world.
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Graduate Scholarship in AgricultureSEARCA invites applications for its graduate scholarship (MS and PhD) in agriculture and related fields including biological sciences, social sciences, economics and statistics, forestry and fisheries, environmental sciences, agro-industrial technology and engineering and biochemistry.
The Alban ProgrammeThe Alban programme, financed by the European Commission, awards scholarships to students from 18 Latin American countries for postgraduate studies and professional training or upgrading. The scholarship pays for education/training programmes that last between 6 months and 3 years.
The Canon National Parks Science Scholars ProgramThe program is collaboration among Canon, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the US National Park Service. Research projects in the biological, physical, social and cultural sciences are eligible, as well as projects in technology innovation in support of conservation science.
The International Foundation for Science (IFS) Granting ProgrammeThe IFS Granting Programme is open for project proposals from developing country scientists who meet the eligibility criteria and conduct research on the sustainable management of biological resources.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Sponsorship Programmes (AvH)The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) enables highly qualified scholars holding doctorates from developing countries to carry out academic projects of their own choice in Germany. Projects in agriculture, forestry and geosciences, along with interdisciplinary projects relating to the environment and natural resource protection are eligible.
Becas.com, Courses and FellowshipsFellowships is a search site in Spanish providing a lot of information about grants, courses and training opportunities.
The Bentley Fellowship. International Development Research CentreThis fellowship provides assistance to Canadian or developing-country students or researchers with a university degree in agriculture, forestry or biology, who wish to undertake post-graduate applied on-farm research in a developing country with cooperating farmers.
Norman Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows ProgramThe purpose of the Borlaug Fellowship Program is to help countries strengthen agricultural practices through the transfer of new science and agricultural technologies. The program would encompass a wide variety of agricultural technologies, including those related to production (e.g., biotechnology), processing (e.g., food safety techniques) and marketing.
Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) PhD Field Research FellowshipsCAPRi aims to promote comparative research on the role played by collective action and property rights institutions for poverty reduction with particular reference to the management of natural resource systems in developing countries.
Organization of American States (OAS) FellowshipsThe Department of Human Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) has implemented a multi-focused plan to increase fellowships and training opportunities and to expand access to knowledge through greater use of information technology.
Research Fellow Partnership Programme for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources (RFPP)The RFPP supports PhD or Post-Doc research projects embedded in research partnerships. These partnerships require a strong collaboration between Swiss research institutions and centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) or equivalent international institutions.
The Christensen Fund Graduate Fellowship Program in Plant ConservationThe International Center for Tropical Ecology (ICTE) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is offering fully funded fellowships to students from tropical America, Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Malaysia and the Pacific Islands with strong leadership and research potential in applied plant conservation.
The World Forest InstituteThe Fellowship Program brings natural resources professionals from around the world to work at the World Forest Institute for 6 to 12 months. They work on a primary research project developed in cooperation with their sponsors, and also participate in group activities which include site visits to forestry agencies, universities, companies and mills.
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Crawford fund FellowshipThe aim of the Fellowship is to provide further training of an agricultural scientist from a selected group of developing countries The training will take place at an Australian agricultural institution and will emphasize the application of knowledge to increased agricultural production in the Fellow’s home country.
WWF Kathryn Fuller FellowshipsThe Fuller Fellowships support early-career, post-doctoral scientists pursuing research of extraordinary importance and relevance to conservation. Fuller Fellowships link these scientists and their research to on-the-ground conservation work through WWF's global network of conservation scientists and practitioners.