Scholarship Fellowship - Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo fellowship Specially Offered for Sub - Saharan Students

Description
The fellowship offers an amount up to US$ 10,000 to fund research in one of the following priority topics:

• Understanding status of and threats to genetic resources of priority forest tree species
• Methods and approaches for conserving genetic resources of important tree species

The research outputs of the award winner's research will contribute to Bioversity International’s Forest Genetic Resources programme as well as the CGIAR Research Programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. Read about the History of the Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo Fellowship scholarship

Eligibility

• Be a citizen of a country in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Be a scientist attached to a national university, research institution or a research-oriented NGO
• Be under 40 years of age
• Have at least a Master’s degree, or equivalent, in a field of study relevant to forest genetic resources

Application Procedure
Downloadable link (Scholarship Application) can be seen at the web link below

Submission Deadline
1 July 2012

Website Link
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/training/research_fellowships/the_call_for_2012_abdou_salam_ouedraogo_fellowship_is_now_open.html