The ILRI seeks to recruit a Scientist – Animal Genetics/Breeding — to manage development of animal genetic resource tools (AnGR) and information systems as decision support tools and aids for conservation and sustainable use of AnGR to contribu…
Archive for November, 2012
ILRI vacancy: Scientist-Quantitative Genetics/Animal Breeding (closing 30 Nov 2012)
ILRI seeks to recruit a Scientist; Quantitative Genetics / Animal Breeding to provide quantitative genetic and statistical inputs in projects designed to identify appropriate livestock breeds and breed combinations for ruminant livestock production sys…
Evaluating the impact of the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship Programme
The Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship Programme awards two fellowships annually to young scientists from developing countries, to enable them to carry out innovative research on the conservation and use of plant genetic resources (PGR).
In Nepal and Papua New Guinea, media does little to explain REDD+
Mainstream media coverage of REDD+ in the forested nations of Nepal and Papua New Guinea is dominated by government policy makers and experts, while the voices of traditional land owners and local communities are conspicuously absent, two new studies b…
Climate change will recalibrate agriculture
“The leading edge of climate change has arrived” says a new policy brief launched at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development in Uruguay, but the growing of trees by smallholder farmers is offering an “avenue of adapt…