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In January 2018, the United Nations QIAO Plan on Climate Change and Nature Conservation (hereinafter as “the QIAO Plan”) was launched by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Beijing Qiaonyu Foundation. The QIAO Plan is highlighted…

In the past few years, through research, workshops and engagement with a diverse set of stakeholders, the Ghana team of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program identified priority areas requiring concerted efforts to improve food security in the…

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (SSPP) welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on “Innovative Perspectives on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.” Complex and diverse arrays of societal factors and institutions will in coming decades create requirements to reconfigure agro-food…

The programme for Scientific & Technological Cooperation is carried out in the frame of the bilateral “Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and…

The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) issued two calls: a call  for applications for the HUC Academy 2018 on Climate Science and Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region, and a call for proposals for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Focus Grants. HUC…

The 6th International Climate Change and Population Conference on Africa will take place in Accra from 23-25th July 2018 with the theme “The future we do not want”. Abstracts will be accepted in three areas namely: (i) Policy and Practice,…

In an increasingly competitive job market, the years during and shortly after the PhD have become critically important to identify and develop viable career paths to becoming independent, successful researchers. Unfortunately, many ECRs are not always adequately prepared for the…

The University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Institute invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, working within an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to developing a deeper understanding of the African bioeconomy. For purposes of this call, “bioeconomy” is defined activities that make…

The University of Graz is looking for PhD students for 20 PhD student positions (project assistant without doctorate) in “Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies” (30 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of three years; twenty positions to be filled as…

The Urban Studies Foundation invites applications for an International Fellowship for early to mid-career urban scholars from the Global South, on any theme pertinent to a better understanding of urban realities in the Global South. The Fellowship covers the costs…