UN Volunteers: Provide Technical Advice on Agriculture (Uganda)
The online volunteer will provide ideas to the project coordinator on how to improve, plan and design for agriculture and rural livelihoods, and design of monitoring and evaluation systems. The discussion will also involve on how to secure funding to help the famers in rural Mukono more so the bee keepers. Share ideas on how to market the products and how to apply new techno ledge which can improve on the yield production.
Deadline: Apply as soon as possible
WorldFish Vacancy: Technical Support Officer
Working as part of the project team, the incumbent will be expected to support the planning, implementation and evaluation of an applied research and development initiative in Myanmar, in partnership with the Department of Fisheries and other national partners.
Deadline: 18th January 2013
Liking that tweet: The Social Media Impact Internship
WFP is looking for university students (age 18-24) who are creative, inspired and passionate about fighting hunger. If this description fits you and you have an active voice on social media platforms, start your journey in the fight against hunger by applying for the social media impact internship. We are looking for students who have an active voice on popular platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and more to take a look at hunger and advocate for change in support of WFP.
Deadline: Apply by 20th of each month
Apply for 1st Annual Africa Youth Assembly!
We are recruiting up to 200 people from Africa to participate in the first Annual Africa Youth Assembly. Our goal is to ensure that at least two young people from every African country are represented at this event, all with direct experience in youth-led development, so their valuable perspectives and realities provide a new paradigm for Africa’s development.
Deadline: 21st January 2013
ILRI Vacancy: Research Assistant – IBLI
This position would be part of the team developing, piloting, assessing the impact of, and scaling-up index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) products.he successful candidate will play a central role in preparing logistics and supervising these socio-economic surveys largely in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. He or she will also support other IBLI team members and commercial partners for IBLI Sale and Indemnity payout activities.
Deadline: 25th January 2013
Nominations for Blogcamp Ghana 2013 Social Media Awards
For each category, the BlogCamp team will select the top 5 nominees, by considering the nomination’s popularity, quality of content, number of times it was nominated by different persons, online ranking.The Blogcamp team will present the list of top 5 nomination under each category and open the voting process.
Deadline: 31st January 2013
Apply to be a Global Youth Service Day 2013 Country Partner
Apply to be a Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2013 Country Partner! Country Partners serve as the lead convener and organizer of Global Youth Service Day, April 26-28, 2013, in their country. Country Partners promote GYSD, mobilize partners and local project organizers, lead high profile events, engage local media and government officials, and coordinate project registration and reporting. Country Partners need to be organizations that have the capacity to work and organize on a national scale.
Deadline: 1st February 2013
Fellowships for Mastering Social Media, Training the Trainers and other courses
1 December is the first day for new NFP-fellowship applications. You should apply to RNTC first and secondly apply to Nuffic for the NFP-fellowship. The application window of the Netherlands Fellowship Programme closes on 5 February 2013, but better start early!
Deadline: 5th February 2013
Apply for the Youth Ag-Summit!
Application Question: In the next 40 years the world’s population will grow from 7 billion to 9 billion, yet already today, 1 billion people do not have enough safe and nutritious food to eat. Using your own village, town, city or country as your point of reference, tell us what you think the underlying causes of food insecurity are and why, and the effect it can have on a population (both locally and globally).
Explain how sustainable agricultural practices could solve these issues and how you would use the Youth Ag-Summit to advance your solution(s).
Deadline: 15th February 2013
Call for articles - Emerging markets
This issue will examine the policies and institutional frameworks needed to make value systems work for poor farmers, and how the development of “new economies”, local markets and local value chains can improve rural livelihoods in a sustainable way. This also implies strengthening the autonomy of family farmers and enhancing multifunctionality on agro-ecological farms. Send your contributions!
Deadline: 1st March 2013
Call for Concept Papers: ITU Green ICT Application Challenge
In support of the “World Environment Day” (WED) and to follow up on the Paris Call to Action on “Smart Sustainable Cities”, ITU and Telefónica have announced a Green ICT Application Challenge to uncover innovative ICT approaches and applications towards addressing global environmental issues in cities and urban areas.
Deadline: 30th April 2013
News
Official Response to 60B Naira expenditure on mobile phones for farmers – Dr Akinwumi Adesina, Honourable Minister of Agriculture (RISE Networks)
Mobile phone use vital for the poor (infoDev)
The Big Question: What Role Should Technology Play in Africa's Development? (World Policy Journal)
‘Silicon Savannah’ empowers Kenyans (BDlive)
Mobile and agriculture in 2012 (GSMA.com)
Driving grassroots wealth formation through ICT4AG (e-Agriculture)
Social media key to ‘balanced ag view’ (Stock & Land)
Events
Exploring the Nokia Life Agriculture Service - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM GMT
3rd Africa Rice Congress – 21-24 October 2013
Resources
Mobile phone use vital for the poor (World Bank)
Seventy-five ways to fix your farmer program (Farm Radio International)
Youth and Digital Mapping in Urban Informal Settlements: Lessons Learned from Participatory Mapping Processes in Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya (The Communication Initiative Network)
2012 Information and Communications for Development (World Bank)
Problems and prospects of adopting ict in agriculture: some comments (African Journal of Agricultural Research and Development)
Videos
Seventy-five ways to fix your farmer program (Farm Radio International)
RITS Traceability System Launches in Peru (Sustainable Harvest)
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