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Consultant – Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Specialist job at International Potato Center | Apply Now
Are you looking for Agriculture jobs in Uganda 2024? If yes, then you might be interested in Consultant – Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Specialist job at International Potato Center
Established in 1971, the International Potato Center (CIP) is a research-for-development organization headquartered in Lima, Peru, dedicated to enhancing food security, improving livelihoods, and promoting gender equity through the sustainable development of potato, sweetpotato, and Andean roots and tubers. Recognized globally, CIP operates in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, collaborating with numerous partners to deliver innovative, science-based solutions that address climate resilience and nutritional challenges.
The organization fosters a work culture grounded in excellence, dignity, respect, empowerment, integrity, diversity, innovation, and partnership, offering employees opportunities to engage in impactful research and capacity-strengthening initiatives. CIP's innovative business model emphasizes market-oriented approaches and strategic partnerships to drive sustainable agricultural practices and inclusive growth. As a member of the CGIAR research partnership, CIP continues to expand its reach and impact, guided by core values that prioritize social responsibility and community engagement. For more information, visit their website at www.cipotato.org.
Kampala, Uganda
Full-time
Consultant – Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Specialist job at International Potato Center
International Potato Center
The Seed Equal Initiative’s work package 7 (WP 7) is a one-year endeavor that is pivoted to strategically and explicitly to WFP programming on value chains, resilience, and school feeding. WP 7 engages with WFP to build more effective and inclusive value chains and use this pivot to demonstrate how seed plays a role in building better value chain/market opportunities for smallholders in chronic stress and emergency conditions. Also, it engages with WFP to strengthen their resilience programming in land restoration and other, similar projects where input markets and access to seed are critically important to success. Finally, WP 7 engages WFP to introduce more nutrient-dense and biofortified crops into the school feeding programs and other programs that it supports. This means helping countries access biofortified varieties and quality seed to supply local farmers, school gardens, and school feeding programs with, e.g., orange-fleshed sweetpotato, high iron beans, and vitamin A (orange) maize. WP7 operates in three primary countries (Uganda, Malawi and Tanzania) and one secondary country (Kenya).
Follow-up to identify the source of vines given to farmers through Ripple Effect (agronomy and resilience corporative partner/CP for WFP in southwest Uganda).
Identify farmers (from both refugees settlements and host communities) to host demonstration plots.
Assist with agronomic trainings (Kyaka II, Kyangwari and Isingiro refugee settlements) on demo plots
Identify CSP needs (Regina for Isingiro, Byoruganda (Kamwenge) and Dinavence Kyomuhendo (Kakumiro) and training at least one vine multiplier or persons of concern (PoC)/refugees group in refugee settlements for supply of clean vine seed.
Assist with two-day workshop/experience sharing on nutrition with CIP, WFP and Partner nutrition experts
Assist with nutrition trainings among PoC groups (in collaboration with WFP and its other partners).
Deliverables
Report on agronomic trainings in refugee (Persons of Concern/PoC) settlements linked to WFP-Southwest Area Office (WFP-SWAO) and host communities.
Report on nutrition and post-harvest trainings in refugee (Persons of Concern/PoC) settlements linked to WFP-Southwest Area Office (WFP-SWAO) and host communities.
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Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, agribusiness management, economics, statistics, and other related fields.
Field team leadership, organizing transport logistics.
At least three (3) years’ experience
Experience working with CGIAR will be an added advantage.
Household and field data collection skills, soft/interpersonal skills, team leadership
Should have working knowledge/experience working in Southwest/western Uganda
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