The Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) project is regional project funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Union (EU), and the Fond Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM) over five years from 2020 to 2025 in four targeted countries: Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The overall objective is to harness the potential of agroecology to transform food and agricultural systems into more sustainable systems, notably safer, more equitable and inclusive, in the Southeast Asia region.
Preah Vihear Province was selected as project flagship site for Cambodia. The development of agroecological practices there targets the agroecological intensification of cropping systems through soil fertility management practices, crop-livestock integration, crop diversification depending on soil types and water availability and agroecological crop protection. The main activities particularly focused on identifying promising rice varieties adapted to agroecological systems and the agroecological crop protection (ACP) practices to control the pests in particular the insects pests on cashew nut. To assist the implementation and the data collection, the project is seeking two motivated interns.
Duration: October 2023 to March 2024
The duty station is based in Rovieng district, Preah Vihear province.
Benefits
- Support on the full process of thesis research
- Accommodation and local transportation are provided.
- Monthly incentive
- Certificate of completion issued by CIRAD
- Assisting the implementation of the on-field experiments and demonstrations on applying agroecological practices / principles on:
- Lowland rice cropping systems
- Cassava cropping systems
- Cashew nut cropping systems
- Improved pasture and forages
- Seed production of cover crops
- Monitoring on the parameters that are defined for the experiments and demonstrations
- Conducting some surveys with the farmers, if needed
- Assessing the results (e.g. yield) of the experiments and demonstrations
- Recording the data in Microsoft excel
- 4th year students or fresh graduates preferably in agronomy
- Interest in agroecology, sustainable agriculture, crop growth and development
- Ability to collect, input, analyze and report data from measurements realized in the field
- Autonomy, willing to work in the countryside and ability for team work
- Ability to write and speak English is a plus
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