Under the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), New Zealand’s Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) initiative has been supporting developing countries like Vietnam towards building capability to meet international standards relating to trade in agriculture products. The CSA is a New Zealand-funded international development programme that aims to strengthen climate action by helping countries to effectively account for, and mitigate, their agricultural GHG emissions.

“New Zealand is supporting Vietnam with a GHG inventory and measurement project, developing Vietnam’s agricultural emissions measurement capabilities to accurately track and claim emissions reductions and identify high-impact mitigation options while maintaining productivity”.

New Zealand CSA funding has been used to develop a digital rice activity monitoring and reporting systmem “RiceMoRe” through a collaboration between the International Rice Research Institute and Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Read more about it HERE.

Closing Date: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until positions are filled
Location: Advanced research institutions in the USA, Germany and New Zealand

We’re hiring postdocs for a project in the Enteric Fermentation R&D Accelerator to tackle methane emissions in livestock using cutting-edge microbial genetics.

For more information and to express your interest, please see the below attachment.

Closing Date: 21st November 2024
Location: Wexford, Ireland

The position involves the monitoring of greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from a range of experimental treatments to identify new mitigation measures. The Research Officer will be responsible for the writing of scientific papers from previously completed experiments. The Research Officer will co-ordinate the project tasks involving the characterization of gaseous emissions from Irish soils and the impact of management on these emissions.

For more information, click HERE.

The November 2024 Circular Food Systems Network (CFS) Newsletter is now available online!

In this jam-packed edition you can find information about our attendance at two conferences, our CFS summer school and more.

You can read the newsletter HERE.

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Closing Date: 22nd November 2024
Location: UCD Lyons Farm, Celbridge, Co. Kildare

Two Research Masters Opportunities are available in the area of ‘Sustainable High Output Grass Based Dairy Production’

For more information and how to apply, please see the document below.

UCD Lyons Farm is a 250 hectare farm located near Newcastle in Co. Dublin, just 30km away from the UCD Belfield campus. UCD Lyons Farm is a Centre of Excellence for Animal, Crop, Food and Veterinary Sciences at University College Dublin and is a key university resource supporting research, teaching and learning.

Closing Date: 25th November 2024 (10am CET)
Location: Poznan, Poland

We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated PhD student to join our research team in the project titled: “Biologically active components of rugosa rose (Rose rugosa Thunb.) as potential modulators of methane emission, fatty acids biohydrogenation, and milk quality in dairy cows“. 

This project, supported by the National Science Center, Poland, project number: UMO-2023/51/B/NZ9/00792/R and the subsequent recruitment to the Poznań University of Life Sciences Doctoral School

Requirements:
a)     PhD candidates should have an MSc in agricultural science (zootechnic), veterinary, life sciences, or related disciplines.
b)    High motivation and competence in conducting research in the laboratory, specifically with dairy cows. Practical knowledge of short- and long-term ruminal fluid incubation techniques and working with animals with a rumen fistula. 
c)     Knowledge of gas chromatographic techniques used in the analysis of volatile fatty acids and long-chain fatty acids in various biological materials (feed, rumen fluid, milk, blood).
d)    Fluent in English, confirmed by a certificate.
e)     Having a valid driver’s license for Poland

Description of activities:
The research that the candidate will participate in will include working in in vitro and in vivo experiments as follows: (1) a short-term batch-culture experiment testing the effect of total polyphenols and/or unsaturated fatty acids; (2) a short-term in vitro batch-culture experiment testing the effect of selected shares of the TMR; (3) a long-term in vitro study – RUSITEC system evaluating the effect of replacing the TMR components in part by RFPF and RFPS (the optimal variant derived from the experiment) as well as pure/blend BAC, pure/blend UFA, and blend BAC/UFA to determine the mode of action and mechanisms by which BACs will be responsible for observed changes. The in situ (4) rumen in sacco experiment on degradation kinetics and effective degradability of RFPF and RFPS, and (5) in vivo experiments on cannulated dairy cows, where rumen fluid and milk will be examined. 

Deadline for offer submission: 25.11.2024, 10.00 a.m. CET, with the proviso that in case of earlier application of candidates who meet the requirements, the competition will be completed before the deadline.

Approximate date of competition results: 02.12.2024, 6 p.m. CET, or as mentioned above.

Documents need to be submitted electronically to: [email protected]

Conditions of employment:
A Ph.D. scholarship for a period of 4 years starting from 1.01.2025. The Ph.D. student scholarship holder will be admitted to the Poznań University of Life Sciences Doctoral School. The scholarship amount will be 3 815.82 net PLN a month for the first two years (until the date of the mid-term evaluation), while after a positive mid-term evaluation it will be 4 880,70 net PLN a month for the next two years.

More details are in the attachment.