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This page contains a list of ongoing opportunities in the fields of agriculture, forestry and biological sciences, offered by other organizations.
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITY: Various scholarships for MSc in Human Development and Food Security, University of Rome "Roma Tre", Italy, apply before 31 May 2012
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Limited number of scholarships each year 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 in June or July. Priority to requests for Master’s level courses but also for PhD programmes. | Citizens of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Syria, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Madagascar, France, Portugal, UK, USA and Canada | |
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. | Depending on each fellowship scheme |
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) -Crawford fund Fellowship | 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, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Is, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kirabati, Vanuatu, Vietnam |
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research - John Allwright Fellowship | 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 |
Wide range of studentships and fellowships offered, both at MSc and PhD level. Funding area: Plants, microbes, food & sustainability. | UK residents. For more eligibility criteria, see the website. | |
Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund - Research Fellowships 2012 | Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, | |
Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship – The International Development Research Centre | 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. | Citizens of Canada and developing countries |
Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP) | 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) |
Christensen Fund Graduate Fellowship Program in Plant Conservation | The 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. | Citizens of tropical countries in Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, Malaysia and Pacific Island countries |
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 | |
UK scheme bringing outstanding students from India, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and the developing world 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 | |
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 | |
- 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. | No restrictions | |
Three-year world-class joint doctoral programme. Every year approximately 8-10 fellowships will be available to academically outstanding applicants. There is one annual call for applications; short-listed applicants are invited to Europe to present and discuss their proposals. Latest call closed on 1 November 2011. | ||
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 | |
Scholarships are granted for studies in any of the educational programs. | No restrictions | |
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 | |
Foreign and local scholarships, foreign fellowships. | Citizens of Pakistan | |
IFAR annually provides small grants to professionals from national agricultural research systems | Citizens from developing countries | |
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 | 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
Doctoral Scholarships in the framework of the Interfaculty Council for Development Co-operation (IRO) for deserving students from developing countries to do their PhD research | Citizens of developing countries. See list | |
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 | |
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 | |
London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment | 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 |
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 | |
Norman Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows Program | 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 | Scholarships by the Dutch Government for studying in the Netherlands | Different scholarships targeted to students |
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 here) | |
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. | Swiss residents under the age of 36, or a citizen from a developing country or country in transition up to the age of 40 |
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 | |
Grants for early career and established researchers working in a variety of environments in the field or in desk based studies. | Depending on grant | |
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 | |
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) | Nationals of Southeast Asian countries | |
Tropical Biology Association (TBA) MSc scholarships | African nationals | |
Third World Academy of Sciences (Academy of sciences for the developing world) | Fellowships are available for postgraduate, postdoctoral and advanced research. | Citizens of developing countries |
Postdoctoral research fellowships | Citizens of developing countries | |
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
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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 | |
Fellowships available for Phd and postdoctoral students. | Citizens of developing countries | |
The Peter Carpenter Climate Change Scholarship - 2011 call closed 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 | |
A new scholarship for postgraduate study (MSc) in Wageningen for candidates from Africa. 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 must be committed to returning home after finishing the MSc study with the aim of contributing to the improvement and further development of the agricultural production of food crops in the home country. | Candidates from Africa | |
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 |
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