Early Career Fellowships 2012

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The call for our Early Career Fellowship Programme (ECFP) for 2012 has closed.

More details on the selected fellows will be available on this website soon.

About the programme

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 are available:

  • Africa-based, one-year full-time post-Masters or post-doc fellowship
  • Africa-based, one-year part-time post-Masters or post-doc fellowship
  • 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