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The 170th seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) will take place in Montpellier on May 15-17, 2019. The topic of the seminar is: “Governance of food chains and consumption dynamics: what are the impacts on food security and sustainability?” The seminar is organized by the joint research unit Moisa which gathers lecturers and researchers from Cirad, Iamm, Inra and Supagro, and is part of Montpellier…

The AGRODEP team would like to extend its sincere congratulations to John Ataguba, who was recently appointed as a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Health and Healthcare. This group explores how healthcare systems can be be redesigned by 2050 in light of changes in the global healthcare landscape, and how the World Economic Forum’s platform approach can be leveraged to facilitate the…

Do you have a good understanding of fertilizer in the ECOWAS region: private sector, recommendations/inputs packages and/or policy issues? Are you an experienced professional with a Master’s Degree in Economics, Agronomy, Agricultural Economics or a related field? If so, an exciting and rewarding opportunity awaits you! IFDC is recruiting two (2) SRLs (covering different groups of countries within ECOWAS) for its USAID-funded Feed the…

Transforming Rural Africa NBER Research Conference -- Call for Papers February 28 – March 1, 2019 Sub-Saharan Africa is in the early stages of agricultural productivity growth and structural transformation. Agriculture’s share of GDP and of employment have declined in recent decades across the continent and uptake of modern agricultural inputs has expanded along with rural communications and transport infrastructure, though slowly…

IFAD's Research and Impact Assessment Division is looking for two post-docs to start as soon as possible. Post-docs will be based in Rome at IFAD for a two year's appointment as UN Temporary Professional Officer. Post-Docs will work with RIA's Team on Impact Assessment Projects using quasi-experimental or non-experimental approaches. The positions will focus on empirical analysis of microeconomic agriculture data from developing…

Beware! To avoid being tricked by scam journals, you should always follow the following rules to deterine the quality of a journal.  How to identify mediocre or predatory academic journals and publishers Spend a few minutes searching on the following websites for the publisher or journal in question: Beall’s List (scholarlyoa.com), which contains blacklisted publishers and journals, as well as so-called hijacked journals; and…

The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program managed by Cornell University in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and other partners announces a call for concept proposals from early-career African researchers seeking to become STAARS fellows in 2018. The fellowship will cover travel and training. STAARS fellows will be paired…

IDRC & ACIAR have issued a call on Ensuring a Food Secure Africa: Cultivate Africa’s Future Fund 2. This call will support cutting edge applied field and/or laboratory research projects with the potential to generate high impact and innovative results with particular impact on the food insecure and poor in eligible eastern and southern African countries. All projects require a sound environmental impact assessment, the consideration of…

The AGRODEP Management Team would like to extend its warm congratulations to Dr. Olawale Olayide, who has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) as Director of Communications. The appointment is a three-year post. Congratulations, Olawale!

REPOA is hosting its 23rd Annual Research Workshop from 4-5 April, 2018 in Tanzania. This year's theme is "Towards industrializing society by 2025: Why national competitiveness matters" Application Requirements: Applicants must read and understand the concept note available here before submitting their papers. All applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts in advance. Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 January 2018 Paper…