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Uganda
Full Time
IFDC is an independent non-profit organization that combines innovative research, market systems development, and strategic partnerships to spread sustainable agricultural solutions for improved soil health, food security, and livelihoods around the world.
Field Extension Workers (FEW) Kigezi Region-BRIGHT Project, Office of Programs job at IFDC
IFDC
IFDC is a public international organization active in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and America. IFDC uniquely approaches the global issues of food security and poverty by bridging the gap between research and impact, combining science-based innovations, holistic market systems development, an enabling policy environment, and strategic partnerships to assist farmers and countries to identify and scale sustainable agricultural solutions, including improved nutrient use efficiency. These approaches are needed to boost soil health and crop productivity while reducing the environmental impact of fertilizer use. IFDC translates research into action by using locally driven, environmentally sound, and impact-oriented solutions. With our partners, we seek to close the yield gap, eradicate global hunger, safeguard the soil on which our lives depend, and generate economic resilience for farming households and the countries in which they live.
Identify and on-board farmers into organized groups called project villages and take them through sessions of Participatory Integrated planning (PIP);
Register farmers and support the cascading of training to generation 1 and 2 households;
Implement farmer support programs, including agronomy and nutrition trainings, farm visits, management of demo plots and input plus out-market support;
Identify potential risks and develop action plans;
Collect and enter data for the BRIGHT M&E system; maintain effective working relationships with staff, local partners, and stakeholders;
Provide technical backstopping to farmer innovators and other project support personnel at ground level.
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Diploma or certificate in either agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, or a closely related field;
Experience and passion in extension work, farmer/group mobilization and training;
Must be a resident of the above area who understands the local language and the local environment;
Proven experience with running farmer trainings;
Willingness and ability to work extensively in rural areas with farmers.
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