USAID is seeking applications from qualified organizations for an Assistance Agreement funding to support a program entitled Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable Development (GRAD) Program. The overall goal of this program is to support and enhance livelihood options of the chronically…

The International Workshop on Agroforestry will be held on the 15th to 17th June, 2011 in Cottbus, Germany. The occasion marks the 20th anniversary of Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus. Topics that will be adressed during the workshop may include: Quantifying agroforestry's impact…

Under the general supervision of the Director, ESW, and as a member or leader of one or more task teams, the incumbent will: provide managerial and technical leadership of FAO’s Strategy Team responsible for the delivery of corporate results on gender equality in access to resources, goods,…

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, is pleased to announce the call for proposals for funding under the Abu Dhabi Dialogue Knowledge Forum-Small Grants Programme (ADDKF-SGP). The objectives of SGP are to (i) to facilitate the quest to increase knowledge about…

In response to constraints to the spread of participatory geographical information systems articulated at the 2005 conference on Mapping for Change, the EU-ACP Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) conceived this Training Kit in partnership with the International Fund for…

The Norman E. Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (Borlaug LEAP) is a fellowship program, funded by 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…

The Land Portal is a new resource developed by the International Land Coalition (ILC) and Landtenure.info. The portal is an easy access, easy-to-use platform to share land related information, to monitor trends, and identify information gaps to promote effective and sustainable land governance.…

Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) aims to institutionalize further in USAID the serendipitous process by which great ideas are conceptualized, developed, refined to meet real-world operational challenges, tested, and ultimately scaled up to change the world in fundamental ways. DIV brings…

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice is a new, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal on extensive livestock production systems throughout the world. It investigates pastoralism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives across the biophysical, social and economic sciences.…

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) is currently looking for three candidates with a scientific background and experience in either anthropology, behavioural sciences/economics or sociology to become members of the Scientific Committee. IHDP is an…

On October 21-22, 2011, the Land Tenure Center (LTC) of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, together with the Translinks program of USAID, is hosting a special workshop on Land Tenure and Forest Carbon Management. The workshop will bring together a…

RLC Campus Bonn and Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, offer scholarships for PhD students from developing and transition countries to participate at a workshop on “Reverse Degradation by Innovation: New Pathways of Sustainable Natural Resource Management”, May 30 – June 1,…