Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and land management
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
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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.
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 • @ProjectDrawdown • ChadFrischmann.com • @chadfrischmann
PROJECT DRAWDOWN
The world's leading resource for climate solutions.
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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). 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: rights-based solutions that can reduce estimated future demand through access to health resources and education.
Demand-Side Food Systems: 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: technological solutions that sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
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.
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