Call for Applications: African Food Baskets Country Researchers Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 6, 2026

Applications are open for the African Food Baskets Country Researchers Program 2026. The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) invites purposes from certified African researchers to help the primary part of the African Food Baskets initiative. Ten Country Researchers will probably be chosen—one from every taking part nation—to doc the meals, dishes, drinks, recipes, meals sources, menus, tales, proverbs and cultural information that form their nation’s meals heritage.

The initiative kinds part of the TAFS Project, funded by Sida, and contributes to AFSA’s My Food Is African marketing campaign. It goals to protect and promote African meals information whereas constructing a continental useful resource for advocacy, analysis, schooling, communication and coverage engagement.

Scope of Work

The chosen Country Researcher will:

• Attend the AFSA on-line coaching on the African Food Baskets Toolkit and full the follow workouts.
• Prepare a brief nation workplan figuring out the communities or meals territories to be documented, the information holders to be engaged and the fieldwork schedule.
• Conduct group entry, clarify the aim of the initiative and acquire consent from communities and particular person individuals earlier than any documentation begins.
• Collect knowledge utilizing the KoboToolbox modules, assembly not less than the minimal nation knowledge package deal set out.
• Collect and caption images and different media in step with the consent recorded in Form 7.
• Complete the Field Data Quality and Validation Checklist and validate the findings with the communities involved earlier than remaining submission.
• Submit the whole nation knowledge package deal to AFSA along with a brief narrative report of not more than eight pages overlaying the method adopted, the folks engaged, the principle findings, meals recognized as being in danger, and suggestions.

Benefits

• Each chosen researcher will obtain USD $1,000 as facilitation for the task. This quantity is paid after the whole nation knowledge package deal has been submitted and accepted by AFSA, and it covers the researcher’s time, native journey, communication and group engagement prices.

Eligibility

Applicants should:

• Be a nationwide of, or be resident and actively working in, the nation they’re making use of to doc.
• Hold a background in analysis, ideally in meals techniques, agriculture, agroecology, vitamin, anthropology, sociology, improvement research, environmental research, cultural heritage or a associated discipline. A postgraduate qualification is a bonus, however robust demonstrated discipline analysis expertise may also be thought of.
• Have sensible expertise of qualitative fieldwork, group interviews or participatory documentation.
• Be in a position to work in not less than one in every of English, French or Portuguese, and be capable to talk in the principle native language of the communities to be documented, or prepare dependable interpretation.
• Have entry to a smartphone, pill or pc and be keen to be taught KoboToolbox. Prior expertise with KoboToolbox or related cellular knowledge assortment instruments is a bonus.
• Be in a position to take clear, properly composed images of meals, dishes and meals environments, or work with somebody who can.
• Be obtainable for the total interval.

Application

Submit the next in a single electronic mail:

• A curriculum vitae of not more than two pages with not less than two referees.
• A rustic idea be aware of not more than three pages setting out the communities or meals territories you’d work with, why you may have chosen them, the information holders you’d interact, how you’d receive consent, and the way you’d handle fieldwork inside two months.
• One instance of earlier related work, comparable to a report, article, thesis chapter or documentation product.
• Where relevant, the identify of the AFSA member organisation you might be affiliated with.

Applications should be submitted to [email protected] by 6 September 2026 and could also be submitted in English, French or Portuguese.

For extra info, go to African Food Baskets Country Researchers.