Deadline: 30 September 2019
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) seeks solutions to help the world’s poorest farmers become climate-resilient
Call for student applications
The CLIFF-GRADS program welcomes applications for the present moment (4-multi month) logical preparing and research on the estimation and the executives of ozone-depleting substance discharges and carbon stockpiling in rural frameworks. Understudies from creating countries1 who are at present joined up with Ph.D. research identified with agrarian ozone harming substance evaluation, or alleviation are qualified to apply. Research will be directed in relationship to CCAFS and GRA researchers' tasks. Applications are mentioned on both of two topics:
- Measurement and mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions or carbon storage in agricultural systems in developing countries, including in the context of enhancing food security;
- Quantification and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from reduced food loss in high emission supply chains (e.g. dairy, beef, vegetables, fruits) in developing countries, including estimation of costs and constraints to mitigation.
Selected students will be sponsored in the amount of 10,000 -12,000 USD.
A rundown of research openings accessible to understudies is here. The awards can be utilized to help living and research costs at the host organization and the award sums have been resolved dependent on living expenses assessed by the establishment. Awards may not be utilized for educational cost, college charges or irrelevant individual costs.
Bluff GRADS is a joint activity of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security's (CCAFS) Low Emissions Development Flagship and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). Precipice GRADS incorporates the Global Research Alliance Development Scholarship and the Climate Food and Farming Research Network with the shared objective of giving awards to PhD understudies in creating nations to grow their insight and involvement in the measurement of agrarian ozone harming substances. Research ventures are facilitated by CCAFS and GRA individuals and accomplices. Subsidizing for CLIFF-GRADS is given by the Government of New Zealand, USAID and by the CGIAR Trust Fund and two-sided understandings on the side of CCAFS.
Application requirements
To have their application reviewed, applicants must complete the CLIFF-GRADS Student Application online survey and submit the necessary documentation as described below to cliffgrads@globalresearchalliance.org.
Applications must be in English and include the following documents merged into one PDF file:
- 1-2 page motivation letter (described below)
- 1-page curriculum vitae that includes your contact details
- Letter of support from your PhD supervisor at your current host university
Motivation letter
The motivation letter, which must be no more than two A4 pages, must include the following:
- Your name, citizenship and the country where you are conducting your graduate study
- The objectives of your graduate research
- The specific research opportunity (number and title) to which you are applying (see list below). If you are interested in more than one research opportunity, please list your preferred research opportunities (up to 3) in order of preference.
- Your qualifications to conduct research on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or soil carbon storage in agricultural systems, as relevant to the research opportunity for which you are applying
- A description of how scientific training with CCAFS/GRA scientists will improve your graduate research and contribute to your career.
Submission and process for selection
The deadline for applications is September 30, 2019. You may submit your application by email to cliffgrads@globalresearchalliance.org. Please also contact this email address for any questions regarding the CLIFF-GRADS scholarship program.
Applicants will be selected based on three criteria:
- overall research qualifications,
- relevance of thesis topic or other research experience to the research opportunity to which the student is applying, and
- clear description of how the CLIFF-GRADS experience will improve the student’s scientific capacity.
Successful applicants will be matched with a project and notified by email by late November 2019.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be currently enrolled PhD students in a field related to quantification of greenhouse gas emissions or carbon sequestration in agricultural systems.
- Applicants must be students from a developing country.1
- Previous CLIFF-GRADS grantees are not eligible to apply.
Requirements of grant recipients
- Grant money should be used to finance the short-term scientific visit, including living and research costs at the host institution and any costs associated with that research, including travel, housing, meals, and research materials and services. Funding is not to be used for tuition, university fees, or unrelated personal costs.
- Scientific visits must take place in 2020.
- Each CLIFF-GRADS recipient will work directly with a research supervisor at the host institute. The activities to be conducted by the student and a budget for the scientific visit will be agreed upon between the student and research supervisor in a Managed Contract.
- The research supervisors will assess the quality of the CLIFF-GRADS recipient’s science performance and monitor the achievement of milestones and deliverables set out in the Managed Contract.
- At the end of the research stay, the CLIFF-GRADS student will submit a final report describing the activities undertaken. The final payment to the CLIFF-GRADS recipient is dependent on this final report being approved by CCAFS and GRA.
- At the end of the research stay, the CLIFF-GRADS student will submit a final report describing the activities undertaken. The final payment to the CLIFF-GRADS recipient is dependent on this final report being approved by CCAFS and GRA.
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