The recently established CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has issued a call for projects on “gender, climate change, agriculture and food security“, which is highly relevant to R&D regarding under-utilised crops. CCAFS will award women scientists enrolled in a PhD program or interested in a post doctoral opportunity, and who are citizens of and affiliated with an institution in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Bangladesh, India, or Nepal, with a research grant of $35,000. Proposals must:

1. Demonstrate and contribute to understanding the linkages between climate change and gender more specifically, while developing policy-relevant findings on climate change, agriculture, and food security more generally.
2. Build research capacity of women scientists in partner institutions and increase their representation in agricultural research.

Proposals must be submitted by 1 May 2011. Thanks to Hannah Jaenicke for alerting us to this opportunity.