Other fellowships and scholarships

Aga Khan Foundation East Africa  [3]

Scholarships for postgraduate studies to outstanding students from developing countries who have no other means of financing their studies. Scholarships are awarded on a 50% grant: 50% loan basis through a competitive application process once a year.

Citizens of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Syria, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Madagascar, France, Portugal, UK, USA and Canada

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Sponsorship Programmes (AvH)  [4]

Opportunities for 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.

Depending on each fellowship scheme

Asia Society

Zhen Fellows Program - provides opportunities for future leaders from China and the United States to deepen their expertise on the important bilateral relationship within the broader context of Asia

Chinese young professionals

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) -   [5]Crawford Fund Fellowship  [5]

The 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.

Citizens of, or working in, one the following countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kirabati, Vanuatu, Vietnam

Call open until 28 June 2013  [1]
  [6]

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) - John Allwright Fellowship  [7]

Provides the opportunity for partner country scientists involved in ACIAR-supported collaborative research projects to obtain postgraduate qualifications at Australian tertiary institutions.

Working in one of the following countries: Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa), East Timor, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Western China, Republic of South Africa

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) - Australia Awards in Africa  [8]

Applications are now invited from African nationals from eligible countries for PhD Awards in Agriculture for studies in agriculture and food security commencing in 2014. Candidates with linkages to one of the Australian government funded food security initiatives are especially encouraged to submit an application.

African nationals from eligible countries

AWARD Fellowship  [9]

AWARD is a professional development program that strengthens the research and leadership skills of African women in agricultural science, empowering them to contribute more effectively to poverty alleviation and food security in sub-Saharan Africa.

African women working in agricultural research and development from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia

BBSRC Bioscience for the future
  [10]

Wide range of fellowships offered both at MSc and PhD level. Funding area: Plants, microbes, food & sustainability.

UK residents

BeCA - ILRI Hub  [11]

Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund

Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic,
Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia,Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda
Current call closed

Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship – The International Development Research Centre
  [12]

Assistance to 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.

Citizens of Canada and developing countries

Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP)  [13]

The Borlaug LEAP is a fellowship program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to enhance the quality of thesis research of graduate students from developing countries who show strong promise as leaders in the field of agriculture and related disciplines.

Citizens of USAID-assisted countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
see eligibility criteria
  [14]current call closed
  [13]

The Center for Development Research  [15] (Bonn)

Doctoral scholarship “Adaptation Policies for Local Commodity, Service, and Factor Markets in West Africa”. The scholarship is part of the newly created West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL  [16]).

Scientists from Africa with a MS degree in economics or related discipline and a strong quantitative/mathematical background  [17]

Christensen Fund Graduate Fellowship Program in Plant Conservation  [18]

The International Center for Tropical Ecology (ICTE) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is offering fully funded fellowships to students with strong leadership and research potential in applied plant conservation.

Citizens of tropical countries in Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, Malaysia and Pacific Island countries

Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation - Grants  [19]

Grants offered to NGOs in resource conservation and sustainable agriculture (in addition to health). Grants support research and solve specific problems in order to build capacity in developing countries.

No restrictions

Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards (DHPA)  [20]

UK scheme bringing outstanding students to come and study for PhDs in top rated UK research facilities.

Citizens of India, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and the developing world

Elsevier Foundation  [21]

New Scholars and Innovative Libraries Programs to promote gender equity in academia and build capacity in developing world libraries. Grants provide one, two and three year awards between US$5,000 to US$50,000 per year.

current call closed
  [22]

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme
  [23]

The programme offers financial support for institutions and scholarships for individuals.

Open to higher education institutions and to any organisation active in the field of higher education and research as well as to students, doctoral candidates, teachers, researchers and university staff (academic and/or administrative) from any part of the world

Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems – TROPIMUNDO  [24]

9 scholarships for European students (23,000 EUR each) and 6 scholarships for non-European students (48,000 EUR each) covering the two years of study including Tuition fees (4,000 for EU students and 8,000 EUR for non-EU students), travel, visa-related costs, monthly allowance, etc

European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  [25]

• Long-Term Fellowships are awarded for a period of up to two years and support post-doctoral research visits to laboratories throughout Europe and the world.   [26]
• Short Term Fellowships fund research visits of up to three months to laboratories in Europe and elsewhere in the world. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations with research groups applying techniques unavailable in their own laboratory.  [27]

  [27]

No restrictions

FONASO - Forest and Nature for Society  [28]

Three-year world-class joint doctoral programme. Every year approximately 8-10 fellowships will be available to academically outstanding applicants.

Call now closed  [28]

Fulbright Program  [29]

The Program provides grants in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, biological sciences, ecology, and rural development and has into these disciplines some themes as physiology, molecular biology, plant pathology and plant disease management.

Depending on scheme

FUNIBER (Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana)
  [30]

Scholarships are granted for studies in any of the educational programs.

No restrictions

Global Rice Science Scholarships (GRiSS)  [31]

The 2011 GRiSS offers young agricultural scientists the opportunity to be experts in a scientific discipline and to have a broader understanding of the global issues that affect rice science for development. Opportunity for scientists early in their career who are working in a national agricultural research and extension system in developing countries.

Developed- and developing-country candidates

Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
  [32]

Foreign and local scholarships, foreign fellowships.

Citizens of Pakistan

IFAR's Professional Development Grants
  [33]

IFAR annually provides small grants to professionals from national agricultural research systems

Citizens from developing countries

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  [34]

IDRC funds research activities that are designed to directly benefit developing countries and their citizens.

Canadians or citizens of developing countries

International Foundation for Science (IFS) Granting Programme
  [35]

The 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.

Citizens of developing countries

Japan-CGIAR Fellowship Program  [36]

Fellowship program under which about 10 excellent young and promising researchers are dispatched to CGIAR Centers for a period of about two months each year. To be eligible for this fellowship, the applicant must be less than 35 years old, a Japanese citizen involved in research in the field of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and holds at least a Master’s degree.

Citizens of Japan

JIRCAS Visiting Research Fellowship Program  [37]

Every year, JIRCAS invites promising researchers from research organizations in developing countries to conduct research work under the supervision of JIRCAS researchers. This fellowship program has two types namely, Tsukuba-Okinawa and Project Site Type. Under the former, the research will be carried out either at the JIRCAS HQ in Tsukuba, or at the Tropical Agriculture Research Front (TARF) in Okinawa, while under the latter, it will be done at the institutes in developing countries where JIRCAS collaborative research projects are being implemented.

Citizens of developing countries

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven  [38]

Doctoral Scholarships in the framework of the Interfaculty Council for Development  Co-operation (IRO)  [38] for deserving students from developing countries to do their PhD research

Citizens of developing countries
See list  [39]

Kirkhouse Trust

Postgraduate Scholarship Grants (PhDs on crop improvement ), Scientific Research Grants (on legumes), Conference/Training Grants (on agricultural crop improvement; typically food crops)

Citizens of developing countries

Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships  [40]

Provide opportunities for academic researchers to be relieved of all their teaching and administrative duties. The fellow's employing institution will be reimbursed for the full salary costs for the applicant.

No restrictions

Leverhulme Center for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH)  [41]

Four London-based PhD studentships, each 3 years in duration, covering fieldwork costs, student stipend, and UK/EU tuition fees. Each studentship will be registered in one of the participating Colleges and jointly supervised by health and agricultural researchers.

London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
  [42]

Two fully funded MPhil/PhD studentships for research projects on the international politics or international political economy of climate change, preferably with a focus on climate diplomacy and international negotiations, multi-level climate governance, or the role of corporations and other non-state actors.

No restrictions

Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program
  [43]

Program trains emerging leaders in the fight to end hunger worldwide. It is a unique two-year program that combines field and policy work.

U.S. citizens or permanent residents

Nordic Africa Institute

African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme -  directed at scholars in Africa, engaged in research on the African continent. Female researchers are especially encouraged to apply for these scholarships.

Norman Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows Program  [44]

The 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.

Citizens of developing and middle income countries

NUFFIC – Netherlands organization for international cooperation
  [45]

Scholarships by the Dutch Government for studying in the Netherlands

Different scholarships targeted to students

Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)  [46]

Postgraduate Training Fellowships in a field of the natural sciences for at Centres of Excellence in the South.

Women Scientists from Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDC)
Deadline 31 July 2013

Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowships  [47]

The 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.

Citizens or permanent residents of an OAS Member State
see list  [48]

Research Fellow Partnership Programme for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources (RFPP)
  [49]

The RFPP supports PhD or Post-Doc research projects embedded in research partnerships. These partnerships require a strong collaboration between Swiss research institutions and CGIAR centers or equivalent international institutions.

Swiss residents under the age of 36, or a citizen from a developing country or country in transition up to the age of 40

Rothamsted International African Fellows Programme  [50]

The programme aims to facilitate capacity building and training in agricultural science by providing sub-Saharan African scientists with Fellowships to work with a research group at a European laboratory.

Citizens of sub-Saharan African countries

Royal Geographical Society – Grants for Research
  [51]

Grants for early career and established researchers working in a variety of environments in the field or in desk based studies.

Depending on grant

Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program – Fellowships  [52]

Academic training of conservationists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in a wide variety of disciplines so that they may gain the knowledge and skills necessary to manage natural resources in complex contexts. Train Fellows receive financial support for education-related costs for a period of up to two years. Study can be at the master’s or doctoral level and can take place anywhere in the world.

Citizens or legal residents of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Tanzania, Timor Leste

Santa Fe Institute - International Fellows Program  [53]http://www.santafe.edu/education/fellowships/  [53]

The International Fellowship Program fosters the further development of academic and interdisciplinary research activities in targeted countries throughout the world.

No restrictions

Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
  [54]

Graduate scholarships
Regular Ms/PhD scholarships
  [54]

Nationals of Southeast Asian countries

Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF)  [55]

The program provides full scholarships for higher education for undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. programs in cooperation with renowned partner universities in Taiwan

Applicants from selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean region, and other countries (Jordan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkey)

Tropical Biology Association (TBA)
  [56]

Tropical Biology Association (TBA) MSc scholarships

African nationals

Third World Academy of Sciences (Academy of sciences for the developing world)
  [57]

Fellowships are available for postgraduate, postdoctoral and advanced research.

Citizens of developing countries

TWAS-Fellowships
  [58]

Postdoctoral research fellowships

Citizens of developing countries

Université Catholique de Louvain, The Biodiversity Governance Unit of the Centre for Philosophy of Law (CPDR)
  [59]

The research unit on Biodiversity governance (BIOGOV) is a research unit of the Centre for the Philosophy and offers postdoctoral fellowships in environmental economics

No restrictions

University of Freiburg, Institute of Silviculture  [60]

Two 3 years-PhD-scholarships available within the EU-funded research project "Governance of Natural Resources by Smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon".

Preferably Brazilian citizens
 email  [61]

University of Hohenheim, Food Security Center
  [62]

Fellowships available for PhD and postdoctoral students.

Citizens of developing countries

University of Sussex  [63]

The Peter Carpenter Climate Change Scholarship - 2011 call closed  [64]

The scholarship is open to citizens of African countries only. The scholarship covers 100% of tuition fees and provides a stipend for living expenses of approximately £13,400. The scholarship is one component of the African Climate Initiative at Sussex, which aims to better understand the nature, causes and consequences of, and responses to climate change in Africa.

African scientists with a first class degree

 email  [65]

University of Oxford

Louis Dreyfus PhD scholarships in Food Security  [66] (crop science, biodiversity, conservation)

students from Africa, Asia and South America

University of Wageningen - Paul Speijer Fund  [67]

A new scholarship for postgraduate study (MSc) in Wageningen for candidates who have completed a BSc in Plant Sciences or Agronomy with outstanding results, who are currently working as a professional in a local research institute and who will use this MSc-level postgraduate education to become leaders in their field.

Candidates from Africa
 
 email  [68]

Wellcome Trust  [69]

A variety of fellowships aimed at encouraging and supporting individuals throughout their research careers - those relevant to Bioversity's work fall under public health and tropical medicine  [70]

The fellow must be based at an eligible sponsoring institution in a low- and middle-income country

World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF  [71])

Ann Stroud Memorial Scholarship
  [72]Thesis research fellowships for postgraduate students wishing to conduct their thesis research in collaboration with ICRAF Scientists. The fellowships are tenable at any university in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Ethiopia and Rwanda). The upper limit for the support is US $ 5,000 to cover field research and thesis production; and $ 1,500 for supervisory support.

National of Eastern Africa

World Forest Institute  [73]

The 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.

No restrictions