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WE4F MENA: EOI from Service Providers
Do you have experience that you believe is beneficial to up-and-coming innovators? Can you demonstrate a solid track record backing up your work? Do you operate in one of the Middle East and North Africa Regional Innovation Hub's (MENA RIH) 10 target countries?
If you answered yes to the previous questions, then join our pre-vetted pool of service providers for the MENA RIH! You can be part of scaling water-energy-food nexus solutions and unlocking opportunities across the MENA region. Click learn more for all information related to the call and the application.
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WE4F Launches Solar Powered Irrigation Systems App
WE4F has launched a smartphone app for the SPIS. The new app supports the design, budgeting and installation of solar-powered irrigation systems on the go. The new smartphone app supports users as they plan and optimize the use of solar pumps while helping to address groundwater overuse risks. To have a seamless experience even in the field, users can also save data in the app and access it without an internet connection. The app supports advisors and farmers in quickly accessing comprehensive information and supporting tools in a mobile, accessible, and user-friendly way.
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Don't Miss Our Next Lessons Learned Webinar
The postponed Environmental Monitoring and Support for Innovators has been rescheduled for February 17th at 9:00 AM EST. This session will feature Securing Water for Food innovators as they discuss the importance of environmental monitoring and support in order to decrease their environmental footprint and improve their integration of ESGs.
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PhD Fellowships on Agriculture and Genetic Engineering
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at NC State are now recruiting Ph.D. students for our third and final cohort of students for the graduate training program in Agricultural Biotechnology in our evolving Food, Energy, and Water Systems (AgBioFEWS). This interdisciplinary, NSF-funded program is focused on biological and societal aspects of biotech/synbio in agriculture. Applicants working on microbiology are especially encouraged to apply. The application deadline is 2/1/21.
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Office of Global Partnerships: COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund
The Department of State and USAID have launched the COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund with an additional $10 million in new assistance funds. The Fund has been established to strengthen the efforts of the private sector and bolster ongoing response efforts, helping the world's most vulnerable overcome the devastation inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Concept papers will be accepted beginning August 5, 2020 and be reviewed on a rolling basis through 11:59PM Eastern Time on May 30, 2021. Please note that projects will be funded on a rolling basis. The Department reserves the right to close this announcement sooner than the given date if the available amount of funding has been exhausted.
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Achieving Sustainable Landscape Goals Opportunity
This USAID announcement seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, and scaling of innovative interventions for reducing land-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing long-term carbon sequestration at scale. USAID is not soliciting expressions of interest with this announcement. These will be solicited through a subsequent addendum or addenda to the Broad Agency Announcement.
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Innovator Guidebook: Business Models for Base of the Pyramid
Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or NGO, WE4F's webinar on navigating business models for base of the pyramid (BOP) consumers will provide you with examples, recommendations, and lessons learned that can improve your operations. The webinar is a component of the Innovator Guidebook: Navigating Business Models for the Base of the Pyramid in Water and Energy for Food. The session featured Africa Hydroponics, aQysta, and Lal Teer Seed - all innovators who participated in Securing Water for Food (SWFF) - the companies covered what BOP integration meant for them and the impact they had on farmers, women, job creation, and product sales.
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Climate Adaptation Summit 2021
The Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS 2021) 2021, to be held on 25-26 January, is an online global conference to accelerate, innovate and scale up the world's efforts in adapting our societies and economies to the inevitable effects of climate change over the coming decade.
CAS 2021 is a multi-stakeholder event, with participation by governments from all continents as well as business leaders, mayors, international organisations, academia, civil society, and youth representatives.
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SPIS Toolbox in Arabic
Water scarcity and electricity access are major challenges for the Middle East and North North. To help impact these challenges, the Solar Powered Irrigation Systems Toolbox has been translated into Arabic. The toolbox provides users with support to budget, size, and design solar-powered irrigation systems to minimize the risks related to system efficiency, financial viability and the over-use of groundwater.
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Food Processing, Marketing, And Distribution in the Agri-Food Sector
The food processing sector has always faced tough competition in the Lebanese market due to reliance on imported goods. Because of the ongoing economic crisis, the growing tendency to rely on local production is giving this sector a great opportunity to grow. To meet this increasing demand, the sector needs to improve not only its quality and practices but also its costs to meet local supply and export to help in improving the trade balance situation. To get a clear idea of what is needed in terms of technology to help this sector improve, we are hosting experts in the processing, marketing, and distribution of agri-food products.
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Sustainable Global Food Systems Course
We are currently facing one of the biggest challenges worldwide: how to feed a growing population without exhausting global resources. This course by EdinburghX examines food security from a food systems perspective and illustrates the major global challenges present, from the environmental impact of food production to the public health impacts of current and future diets. We also look at where food systems and non-food policies interact, such as climate change and biodiversity conservation.
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