Food Security
Funded PhD: Northern Food Systems
Lakehead University, in partnership with the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) project, is looking for an exceptional candidate to undertake PhD research on issues of northern food systems sustainability. We are offering funding of $10,000/year for four years (providing satisfactory performance). Additional funding may be available […]
Tags: #Food policy #Food Security #Food Sovereignty #Food systems #Governance
Resources on Seasonality
Robert Chambers states that “As a dimension of poverty, seasonality is as glaringly obvious as it is still grossly neglected. Attempts to embed its recognition in professional mindsets, policy and practices have still a long way to go” (Chambers, 2012: xv; in the Forward of Devereux, Sabates-Wheeler and Longhurst, 2012). This quote comes from an […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Food Security #Livelihoods #Rural Development #Seasonality
PhD Studentship: Northern Food Systems
Lakehead University, in partnership with the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) project, is looking for an exceptional candidate to undertake PhD research on issues of northern food systems sustainability. We are offering funding of $10,000/year for four years (providing satisfactory performance). Additional funding may be available […]
Tags: #Food Networks #Food policy #Food Security #Food Sovereignty #Governance Systems
Essential Reference on Food Security
For those interested in, doing research on, or teaching about food security, Mark Gibson’s “The Feeding of Nations: Redefining Food Security for the 21st Century” (2012) is an essential reference to have. The book is a hardcover 640-page academic work, and unfortunately not cheap. There are a couple of ways to access the ideas if […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Food Security #Food Studies #Nutrition #Technology
Post-doc: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities
Title of project: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the social and physical food environments that drive consumption of energy dense nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods and beverages, to identify interventions targeting women and adolescent girls throughout the reproductive life course. Project objectives: To examine factors in social and physical food environments of African […]
Tags: #Dietary transition #Food Security #Food Studies #Ghana
MA & PhD Studentships: Critical Urban Food Studies
Start date will be January 2017 (preferably) or possibly September 2017. Please apply internally to Prof. Dr. Marit Rosol on or before 25 August 2016. Qualifications: Research project idea that fits within the team’s focus on critical urban food geographies and food justice Outstanding previous degree performance Enthusiasm for research, including interest (M.A.) or experience […]
Tags: #Food justice #Food Security #Food Studies #Geography #Social Justice
Research Fellow: Cacao and Climate Change
This position is only open to candidates who have completed their PhD studies within the past 24 months and who are US Citizens / permanent residents or cocoa producer country nationals including: Africa (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, & Nigeria); Latin America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Biodiversity #Cacao #Climate change #Food Security
Post-doc: Justice and Global Food Systems
The Department is pleased to offer a two-year Research Fellowship in the area of the Justice and Global Food Systems: Injustices and Resistance in Global Food Governance. This exciting post-doctoral position offers exceptional applicants the opportunity to develop and deliver an original research project addressing this theme, working within one of the UK’s strongest Departments […]
Tags: #Food Security #Food system #Governance #Justice #Social Justice
At Congress2016 as a SSHRC Storyteller
Presented at Congress2016 on May 30th as a SSHRC Storyteller Finalist.
Tags: #Congress2016 #Ethiopia #Food Security #SSHRC #Stages of Food Security
Post-doc: Conflicts between food security and biodiversity conservation
3 postdoctoral research assistant positions are available at the University of Stirling to work in the research group of Dr Nils Bunnefeld on a European Research Council (ERC) funded project entitled “Resolving conflicts between food security and biodiversity conservation under uncertainty (ConFooBio)”. The three posts will initially be employed on a 3 year fixed term […]
Tags: #Biodiversity #Conflict #Conservation #Food Security #Post-doc
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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