UDSM: SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR MASTER STUDIES IN FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMME

The Sustainable Agricultural Productivity, Processing, and Value Chain for Enhancing Food Security in Tanzania (SAPPV), a Sida-funded sub-programme, has 6 scholarship positions for masters degree. Selected applicants will register and do their masters degrees at the University of Dar es Salaam at the College of Agricultural
Sciences and Fisheries Technology. The Scholarship is for full time students for a period of 24 months. The research themes for masters shall include:

1. Food Postharvest Technologies and value addition
2. Infectious Diseases and Food Security
3. Supply Chains and Food Security
4. Precision agriculture
5. Modelling for Food Security
6. Urban agriculture for food security
7. Nutrition and food security

Eligibility:
 Applicants must have at least an upper second degree in the relevant
field (biological sciences, engineering. agriculture, agricultural
economics, natural resource/forest economics, veterinary medicine,
animal science, biotechnology, bioinformatics, fisheries and aquaculture,
food science and technology)
 Age not more than 35 years
 The scholarship is intended for UDSM staff, but also other potential
candidates may apply.
 Qualified females are encouraged to apply.
 The successful candidates will register in either of the following units
CoAF, CoET, CoNAS and IRA depending on the nature of the concept
note submitted.

Application
Send a CV, cover letter, letters from your three referees,transcripts, certificates, and a
concept note of not more than two pages addressing a topic of interest of the above
themes. The application must reach the Project Coordinator by 31
st January 2018.