Awards and Fellowships

Learn more about each of the awards available for early career agricultural scientists and senior scientist exchanges.

CLIFF-GRADS, launched November 2017, is a joint initiative of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). CLIFF-GRADS aims to build the capability of early career agricultural students in developing countries to conduct applied research on climate change mitigation in agriculture.

CLIFF-GRADS provide short-term grants for students currently enrolled in PhD programmes to undertake scientific training and research on topics related to measurement and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and/or carbon storage in agricultural systems and quantification of greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potential from food loss and waste.

Funding for CLIFF-GRADS grants is provided by the Government of New Zealand, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and CGIAR Trust Fund donors.

NZ-GRADS is a PhD scholarship offered to science students from developing countries to complete their PhD at a New Zealand university.

The PhD research topics must be related to greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural systems, primarily livestock, but innovative and novel aspects of this will be considered, especially related to new technologies or new applications of existing technologies.

The GRA offers a wide range of capability building and research programmes through various partners within New Zealand and internationally. These PhD students would be actively supported through various extension and networking events that we host in New Zealand.

The GRA-RUFORUM Graduate Research Awards (GRA-GRG) are a joint initiative of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). The GRA-GRG are aimed at building the capability of graduate and post-graduate level students in Africa to conduct applied research on agricultural GHGs.

The GRA-GRG are administered by RUFORUM to participating universities. Each award supports a Principal Investigator (an individual senior lecturer of a RUFORUM member university) and two Master of Science students.

Funding for the first round of the GRA-GRG was provided by the Government of New Zealand and the Netherlands.

The Livestock Emissions Abatement Research Network (LEARN) was New Zealand’s competitive fellowship programme under the GRA. It provided opportunities for early career scientists to undertake research stays in New Zealand.

The Global Research Alliance Senior Scientist (GRASS) awards provided short term exchange opportunities for senior scientists from New Zealand and other GRA member countries to encourage global research collaboration.

The LEARN and GRASS awards were put on hold indefinitely in 2020. Please direct any queries about potentially similar future opportunities to the GRA Secretariat.