Scientist – Mixed Crop Livestock System at Bioversity International

Requirements

•  PhD Degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Sciences, or any other relevant field, with a focus and/or proven interest crop-livestock topics
•  An advanced Degree in Agricultural Economics with an ability to integrate knowledge to the social aspects of agriculture, economics and livelihoods and human dietary needs will be a plus.
•  Over seven (7) years of relevant work experience in a closely related field gained in an international organization with key strength in application of mixed farming systems to climate smart crop-livestock management
•  Demonstrated systems thinking for mixed crop-livestock integration with innovative interventions as applied to measurement, verification and reporting systems as applied to mixed farming systems
•  Proven experience in in qualitative and quantitative analysis of mixed farm management datasets
•  Experience in pathways and policy frameworks for Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems and how these facilitate and support scaling
•  Partnerships with global players in climate smart crop-livestock development
•  Sustainable intensification approaches to promote One Health in Mixed Farming Systems
•  Proposal and policy briefs formulations that support integration of climate smart livestock management .