CLIFF-GRADS Awardees 2018
The first successful candidates of the GRA and CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change (CCAFS) joint CLIFF-GRADS initiative have been announced.
CLIFF-GRADS is an international doctorate scholarship programme designed to support budding agricultural scientists.
Some 65 applicants from 23 countries applied for the scholarship following its launch at the United Nations climate conference in November last year. The nine successful first-round candidates come from a range of countries including Argentina, Ethiopia, Colombia, Nigeria and Tunisia.
Scholarship recipients will work in a range of research fields including nutrient management, pasture management, soil and rumen microbiology, tropical agriculture, and greenhouse gas measurement.
The Round 1 awardees are:
Listed by Name, Nationality, Host Organisation and Project Topic
| Abubakar Halilu, Nigeria International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia More Rice with Lower Emissions and Lower Water Consumption |
| Banira Lombardi, Argentina International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia Pasture type influence on soil N2O emission for cattle excreta |
| Florencia Garcia, Argentina National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA), Chile Effects of inhibiting rumen methanogenesis on microbial biomass production and composition |
| Isabel Cristina Molina Botero, Colombia International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia Productivity, reduced methane emissions and reduced dependency on external inputs on tropical livestock farms |
| María De Bernardi, Argentina National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA), Chile N2O emissions from pastures using novel fertilizer formulations |
| Ofonime Eyo, Nigeria International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT), India and Bangladesh Quantification of environmental footprints of various climate smart practices under contrasting rotations, management, soil type and agroecologies of South Asia |
| Ridha Ibidhi, Tunisia Rothamsted Research and Bangor University, United Kingdom Identifying hotspots of GHG emissions in dairy systems and associated efficiency gains |
| Sebastián Vangeli, Argentina Rothamsted Research and Bangor University, United Kingdom Structures and data requirements to develop a higher tier agricultural greenhouse gas inventory |
| Yohannes Gelan Regassa, Ethiopia Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands Bringing climate smart practices to scale: assessing their contributions to narrow nutrient and yield gaps |
