An Anthropology ‘People’ Pathway to Ag4Development

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 […]

A Forestry Pathway to International Agricultural Development

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 […]

Crawford Fund Webinar: Making a Global Difference

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 […]

Getting the #nextgen into international agricultural research for development

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 […]

Cultivating Confidence – Say ‘Yes’

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 […]

What is it and how do I get involved: RAID’s guide into International Agriculture Research

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, […]