*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Please see a reminder message from Chad Frischmann from Project Drawdown
inviting applications for the Drawdown Fellowships.
Apologies for any cross-posting.
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
*Global CA-CoP*
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover
crops).* *These
practices are complemented with other good agricultural production and land
management practices.*
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From: Chad Frischmann <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 16:59
Subject: REMINDER - Please Help Us Identify Candidates for the Drawdown
Fellowship
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
*I'm writing to you today to let you know the priority deadline for the
Project Drawdown Research Fellowship in 7 days (September 15th) and we need
your assistance recruiting the right candidates for the Fellowship
Program.* This
year, we're recruiting fellows with specialties in the following solution
areas: Health & Education, Food Systems, Avoided Methane, Transportation,
and Engineered Sinks. If there are specific individuals who you think might
be the right candidates for our fellowships, we would appreciate your
direct recommendations. Details about the research program and these
opportunities can be found on the Project Drawdown website
https://www.drawdown.org/programs/drawdown-research.
Please feel free to forward the information below the signature to
colleagues, graduate students, or others in your network who might be
interested and qualified.
Thank you for any assistance with this. I look forward to your reply.
Best wishes,
*Chad Frischmann* • Vice President & Research Director
Drawdown.org <https://www.drawdown.org/> • @ProjectDrawdown
<https://twitter.com/ProjectDrawdown> • ChadFrischmann.com
<https://www.chadfrischmann.com/> • @chadfrischmann
<https://twitter.com/ChadFrischmann>
*PROJECT DRAWDOWN*
*The world's leading resource for climate solutions.*
*Watch me on:*
2019 International Drawdown Conference
<https://drawdown.psu.edu/livestreaming>
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DRAWDOWN FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT - Priority Deadline Sep. 15th
Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world
reach “Drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Since the
2017 publication of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown, the
organization has emerged as a leading resource for information and insight
about climate solutions. Cities, universities, corporations,
philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more
turn to Project Drawdown, as they look to advance effective climate action.
We aim to support the growing constellation of efforts to move climate
solutions forward and move the world toward Drawdown—as quickly, safely,
and equitably as possible
After three years of research and analysis, we published the New York Times
bestseller, Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed for
reversing global warming. The book was the #1 best-selling environmental
book of 2017, and is being translated into ten languages. The research
within this book has influenced university curricula, city climate plans,
commitments by businesses, community action, philanthropic strategy, and
more. In March 2020, we published the Drawdown Review (click here to access
<https://www.drawdown.org/?inline=true#colorbox-content>). The Drawdown
Review
is our organization’s second seminal publication and the first major update
to our assessment of solutions to move the world toward “Drawdown”—the
future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop
climbing and start to steadily decline.
As the Project Drawdown research continues to expand in scope and depth, we
are recruiting more sector experts and data modelers to contribute to the
ongoing research. To assist us in these efforts, we are recruiting up to
five additional Research Fellows (more details below).
Detailed information and application instructions for all Fellowships can
be found on our website:
https://www.drawdown.org/careers/research-fellowship-program
Research Fellowship
(For current post-graduate students and alumni, postdocs, professionals
with five or more years in their subject area)
We are looking for fellows with knowledge and expertise in the following
areas:
-
Avoided Methane: technologies or agricultural practices that reduce
methane from entering the atmosphere.
-
Health & Education
<https://www.drawdown.org/sectors/health-and-education>: rights-based
solutions that can reduce estimated future demand through access to health
resources and education.
-
Demand-Side Food Systems
<https://www.drawdown.org/sectors/food-agriculture-land-use>: supply-chain
solutions that prevent food loss and waste from occurring; and, shifts in
diets and behaviors that limit the production and consumption of
high-emitting commodities.
-
Engineered Sinks
<https://www.drawdown.org/sectors/engineered-sinks>: technological
solutions that sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
-
Transportation <https://www.drawdown.org/sectors/transportation>:
mobility solutions that reduce fuel combustion and/or reduce demand from
passengers and shipping.
Drawdown research fellows will analyze solutions, drawing upon their years
of advanced study, experience, and their backgrounds. They will review
extensive literature and data describing the potential scale, impact, and
cost of each technology or practice they are assigned to investigate. They
will then build analytical models to estimate how many gigatons of carbon
dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases) a given solution
could avoid and/or remove over time, as well as the cost of implementing
and operating it.
We provide Drawdown Fellows with speaking and professional development
training during the fellowship period and continue to offer resources,
connections, and opportunities for Fellows to become spokespeople and
change agents in the drawdown solutions movement.
The 2020 Research Fellowship program is a full-time or part-time, six-month
commitment running from November 1, 2020 – May 31, 2021.
Click here to learn more about the Research Fellowship and apply.
<https://www.drawdown.org/careers/research-fellowship-program>
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