1) 3 years-PhD-scholarship within the EU-funded research project
"Governance of Natural Resources by Smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon"
Closing date: 10 Dec 2010
Contact: Dr. Benno Pokorny, benno.pokorny@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de
2) University of Göttingen, 12 Doctoral Researchers and 1 Postdoc in Agricultural and
Development Economics
Closing date: 10 Jan 2011
Contact: Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim (mqaim@uni-goettingen.de) Georg-August-
Universität Göttingen
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1) 3 years-PhD-scholarship within the EU-funded research project "Governance of
Natural Resources by Smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon"
Closing date: 10 Dec 2010
The Institute of Silviculture at the University of Freiburg is seeking a candidate for a
3 years-PhD-scholarship available within the EU-funded research project
"Governance of Natural Resources by Smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon"
(Governança de Recursos Naturais por Pequenos Produtores Rurais da
Amazônia). The PhD grant amounts to about 1,075 EUR per month. In addition
travel costs for field work in Brazil are funded. The topic of the PhD research will be
negotiated with the successful candidate and should be related to the context
described below.
A significant proportion of the forests in the Brazilian Amazon is formally dedicated
to poor smallholders including settlers and traditional communities. To effectively
use the economic potential of these forests as well as other natural resources
represents an enormous challenge for the families in the context of rapidly
advancing agricultural frontiers dominated by powerful actor groups. In this
situation, the families need to reorganize their strategies for using natural resources
and have to find ways of getting these strategies formally acknowledged. As
conventional expert driven approaches for market integration suffered from major
incompatibilities with local realities, it is worthwhile to explore opportunities for the
promotion of local initiatives developed by the smallholders themselves in
accordance with their interests and capacities. But, little is known about how to
make use of this potential. In this situation, the project brings together smallholders,
governmental agencies and development organisation to work about local
governance systems for the use of natural resources in the two municipalities
Medicilândia and Porto de Moz located in the State of Pará in the Eastern Amazon.
The PhD research will focus on the families settling along the Transamzon highway
in the municipality of Medicilândia.
Candidate's profile:
- MSc (equivalent) degree
- Good knowledge of English (compulsory)
- Working knowledge of Portuguese (or at least Spanish)
- Preferably with some field experience in the Amazon basin
- Preferably with some background in tropical forestry, community forestry, rural
development and transdisciplinary research
- Fulfils faculty requirements for studies at PhD level
- Willingness to travel frequently and to remote areas
- Ability to work in a team
Please, send or email a detailed letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names
and contact information of at least two references until 10th December 2010 or until
filled to:
Dr. Benno Pokorny
Institute of Silviculture
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences
Tennenbacherstraße 4
79106 Freiburg
Germany
Email: benno.pokorny@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: +49-761-2033680
Fax: +49-761-2033781
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2) University of Göttingen, 12 Doctoral Researchers and 1 Postdoc in Agricultural and
Development Economics
Closing date: 10 Jan 2011
The University of Göttingen has position openings for 12 doctoral researchers and
one postdoc in agricultural and development economics to join the new DFG-funded
Research Training Group (RTG) "Transformation of Global Agri-Food Systems"
(GlobalFood). The positions are available from April 2011. The RTG will carry out
research on restructuring agricultural markets, including the growing role of
international food standards, changing consumer preferences, and the rapid
expansion of supermarkets. Projects will particularly analyze the implications for
supply chain governance, international trade flows, market efficiency, and impacts
on rural poverty, food security, and nutrition in developing countries. All research
and training activities will be carried out in close cooperation with the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Further details about the RTG and
application requirements can be found on the RTG website (www.uni-
goettingen.de/globalfood). Screening of applications will begin on January 10, 2011
and will end when the positions are filled. The University of Göttingen strives to
increase its proportion of female staff and specifically encourages qualified women
to apply. The University is an equal-opportunity employer and strives for staff
diversity
Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim
Lehrstuhl: Welternährungswirtschaft und Rurale Entwicklung
Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: 0551-39-4806
Fax: 0551-39-4823
Email: mqaim@uni-goettingen.de
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