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Future Agricultures Consortium: Early Career Fellowships 2012

by Rebecca Pointer last modified 2012-01-23 14:41

The Future Agricultures Consortium is proud to announce the third call of its grant programme to support talented young researchers working on African agricultural policy: FAC’s Early Career Fellowship Programme (ECFP). The deadline for applications is 17 February 2012.

The Future Agricultures Consortium is a multidisciplinary and independent learning alliance of academic researchers and practitioners involved in African agriculture. We aim to encourage dialogue and the sharing of good practice by policy makers and opinion formers in Africa on the role of agriculture in broad based growth. Collectively we offer a responsive mode of working, so we can engage with policy debates and issues as they arise.


The ECFP is available to early career professionals working in Africa and the UK. Both full-time and part-time appointments are available and all fellowships will include mentorship support from a senior FAC researcher affiliated with a FAC partner institution. The awards will support original field-based and policy-oriented research on African agriculture.


Three types of award available:

  • Africa-based, one-year full-time post-Masters or post-doc fellowship (could potentially be located at PLAAS, if aligned with our research topics)
  • Africa-based, one-year part-time post-Masters or post-doc fellowship  (could potentially be located at PLAAS, if aligned with our research topics)
  • UK-based six-month full-time post-doc fellowship


Applications should be in line with one of FAC’s eight thematic areas:

  • Climate Change
  • Commercialisations
  • Growth & social protection
  • Land
  • Pastoralism
  • Policy Processes
  • Science, Technology and Innovation
  • Young People and Agriculture

This year, special consideration will be given to applications that correspond to the following Special Topics. Applicants are however not limited to these topics so long as their application are in line with one of FAC’s eight themes.

Completed application forms must be emailed to FAC-Fellowships@future-agricultures.org.

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