Year 9 and 10 students across Australia can win $1000 for their school through the Crawford Fund‘s ‘Development for a Better Future’ Competition. Students can work solo or as part of a team to create a short video (<3 minutes) around a food and nutrition security issue from one of the Crawford Fund’s ‘Development for […]
Continuing their Career Pathways Campaign, The Crawford Fund is pleased to have a blog from Dr Jana Phan, who has pursued her interests in policy and advocacy and developed a career pathway where she can combine these interests with her experience in ag development. The Fund has supported Jana for her internship at United Nations Food […]
The Crawford Fund has a commitment in its capacity building and public awareness programs to the importance of communicating the impact of the work of those involved in agricultural R&D to a broad range of non-scientific audiences in funding agencies, other interested stakeholders such as farmers and extension agencies and to the general public through […]
As part of their ACIAR-supported NextGen project in their suite of NextGen activities, The Crawford Fund is bringing you a series on career pathways to ag for development. Working in ag for development has amazing global, national, professional and very personal impacts. You don’t necessarily have to have an ag background to find yourself working […]
As part of their new Career Pathways Campaign, The Crawford Fund is creating blogs, videos and podcasts to highlight the tremendous range and diversity of career pathways to work in agriculture for development. In this blog, Kayla Lochner explains how her interest in people took her from anthropology to ag development. She finishes her blog […]
As part of their new Career Pathways Campaign, The Crawford Fund is creating blogs, videos and podcasts to highlight the tremendous range and diversity of career pathways to work in agriculture for development. In their first blog, Dr Liz Ota, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre at University of the […]
Researchers in Agriculture for International Development (RAID) are looking for entries for their 2020 blog competition that address the topic “This is what ag R4D is for me.” Each year, Australian scientists work together with farmers, entrepreneurs, governments, NGOs, researchers, and universities in developing countries to find solutions for agricultural challenges, working towards more sustainable […]
The Crawford Fund NextGen Program, in conjunction with Future Farmers Network, is running a short webinar on March 19 from 6-6:30pm AEDT. Moderated by Anika Molesworth, Farmer, PhD Candidate and Crawford Fund NSW Committee Member, the panel will include: LAURA MACFARLANE-BERRY: Veterinary Officer, Epidemiology and One Health Section – Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment […]
Nikki Dumbrell, a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR), recently spoke at the Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia’s (PIEFA) Food, Fibre and Foliage Education Roadshow at the Adelaide Showgrounds. Nikki spoke about the opportunities the next generation of scientists have to fight poverty and malnutrition around the […]
This opinion piece is part of the Crawford Fund’s ‘NextGen’ program to encourage the next generation in their studies, careers and volunteering in agriculture for development. Jane Alver, ACIAR’s Associate Research Program Manager for Gender, has not had a conventional ‘ag researcher’ path to ag research, but she has some pearls of wisdom for those […]
As part of the Crawford Fund’s ‘NextGen’ program to encourage the next generation in their studies, careers and volunteering in agriculture for development, this ‘how to’ guide has been penned by Jack Hetherington, President of the RAID Network and Tamaya Peressini, RAID member and Graduate Research Officer at Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Hunger, […]