Call for Nominations: World Food Prize Deadline May 1

Nominate Now for The World Food Prize        "The World Food Prize has totally changed my life, brought me from obscurity to someone that has a voice and draws attention. That's given me a voice and an opportunity to be heard on issues of concern to humanity."  -Dr. Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize Laureate The World Food Prize Foundation is now accepting nominations for its renowned award that recognizes the accomplishments of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.  Nominations of worthy candidates are invited from public and private organizations, academic institutions, governmental organizations, and businesses.  Nominations will be accepted through May 1, 2018. The World Food Prize was created in 1986 to be the highest individual honor for truly exceptional and unique achievements in improving the quality, quantity, and availability of the world's food supply, as well as the access of all human beings to it. This prestigious $250,000 award has been presented to 46 outstanding individuals from 18 countries and the United Nations. In issuing this annual invitation to nominate, World Food Prize President Ambassador Kenneth Quinn affirmed that: "It is imperative that those individuals whose work has truly made a difference in the lives and wellbeing of large numbers of people are considered for this award." The nomination criteria, procedure, and on-line form are available at www.worldfoodprize.org/nominate.  Inquiries and additional nomination materials may be directed to Judith Pim, Director of Secretariat Operations at The World Food Prize, by email at jpim@worldfoodprize.org.

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Call for Nominations: AAEA President-Elect and Directors

The AAEA Nominating Committee is soliciting nominations from AAEA membership for AAEA President-Elect and two AAEA Directors, all for three year terms beginning July 2018.

Please submit the names and affiliations of nominees to kmcguire@aaea.org. Nominations must be received by October 5, 2017.

National Science Foundation: Requests Nominations to Advisory Committees

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued its annual call for recommendations for membership to Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. This committee advises NSF’s offices and directorates on program management, research direction, and policies impacting the agency. Please contact C-FARE at info@cfare.org by June 15 if you are interested in being nominated. Please put NSF SBE Advisory Committee in the subject line. Thank you.

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Deadline: Travel Grants for Economists from LI-LMI Countries

Call for Nominations (24 hours left)

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust invites nominations for economists from low and lower-middle income countries to be awarded full travel grants to attend the 2015 AAEA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA July 26–28, 2015. Nominees should be professional economists who are from and residing in a low income or lower-middle income country. A complete list of qualifying countries is available here, under the headings “Low-income economies” and “Lower-middle-income economies”: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income. Or see list below.
Nominees should be working in one or more of the following fields or another closely related field of applied economics: Agribusiness Economics and Management, Agricultural economics, Economic development, Food and consumer economics, Regional Economics, or Resource and environmental economics.
Nominations should include:

1. Nominee’s name, institution, postal address, and e-mail address.
2. Nominator’s name, institution, postal address, and e-mail address.
3. Brief statement of support written by the nominator.
4. Brief statement of interest written by the nominee.
5. Proposed travel budget.
6. Paper (no longer than 20pp. double-spaced pages, including tables and figures) describing the research to be presented at the meetings

Eligible nominators include department chairs or administrators, advisors, or any AAEA member.
Nomination packages should be submitted electronically in a single PDF to Brian Mondragon Jones at bmjones@aaea.org by 5:00p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
Selected applicants will be scheduled to present their research (as a paper or poster) during the meeting. Details regarding presentation will be provided after the acceptance notices are sent out.
The funds for these travel grants are provided by a grant from USDA-ERS.

Nomination Opportunity for C-FARE & AAEA Members

C-FARE –AAEA invites members of the profession to submit peer or self-nominations for the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics to info@cfare.org. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is seeking the nomination of individuals to serve on its Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics which advises the Secretary of Agriculture on the scope, timing, content, etc., of the periodic censuses and surveys of agriculture, other related surveys, and the types of information to obtain from respondents concerning agriculture. The Committee also prepares recommendations regarding the content of agriculture reports and presents the views and needs for data of major suppliers and users of agriculture statistics. The September 18, 2014 Federal Register Notice was issued on September 8, 2014 by Renee Picanso who is the Associate Administrator of the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.

*C-FARE-AAEA Process 

Please send information for nominees (name and contact) to represent the agricultural and applied economics profession on the Advisory Committee to the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (email: info@cfare.org) by October 8 at the very latest. The September 18, 2014 USDA NASS Federal Register Notice is posted at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-09-18/html/2014-22271.htm