Position ID: | Cornell-Department of Global Development-PTRA [#20943, WDR-00029625] |
Position Title: | Part-Time Research Associate |
Position Type: | Non tenure-track faculty |
Position Location: | Ithaca, New York 14853, United States [map] |
Subject Area: | Agricultural Economics / Interventions |
Appl Deadline: | 2022/02/06 11:59PM** finished (2022/01/24, finished 2022/02/22, listed until 2022/02/06) |
Position Description: |
This position requires an experienced research associate to devote 50% of their full-time effort to the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition's Walmart Foundation project “FPO Led Small Farm Market Access Models for Future Food Systems in India”.
This research associate will work closely with the principal investigators and key personnel and participate in the review the global experiences of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) failures and successes, to identify context, specific and generalizable lessons of FPO functioning, identify multidisciplinary approaches needed to understand the organizational, social, and economic aspects and how they relate to FPOs in India, and to formulate evaluation guidelines and frameworks that can access country-specific interventions and benchmark them to the global experience.
Simultaneously, they will be responsible for an on the ground assessment, in Mexico and India, of FPO agribusiness and intermediary strengthening, FPO business integration, facilities access and market linkages. The successful candidate will:
Required Qualifications:
To apply, please submit a letter of interest, a
CV and publications list, and the name and contact information for three individuals who can be contacted to provide a reference. Applications must be submitted through Academic Jobs Online at the following
link: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20943, no later than February 6, 2022.
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