PhD fellowship - 'Rural livelihoods and agricultural transformation in Africa
Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Department of Geography and Geology of the Faculty of Science offers a PhD position on rural livelihoods and agricultural transformation in Africa. The position is open for appointment from September 30th 2012.
Job description
Different types of structural change and rural dynamics drive rural-urban resource flows, shape diverse patterns of agricultural development and determine the opportunities for rural development, including the upgrading and intensification of agriculture and related activities. In turn, rural livelihoods are influenced by such agricultural transformation processes that may influence the degree of multi-activity and multi-locality in households´ livelihoods.
The PhD study should thus focus on the linkages and multiple feedbacks between structural change, agricultural transformation and rural livelihoods and specifically address how these processes affect the rural-urban mobility patterns of households. It is expected that the PhD study will be using both qualitative and quantitative methods in order to understand the complex processes driving rural livelihood and agricultural transformations.
Place of employment and work will be the Department of Geography and Geology, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen and the PhD candidate will be attached to the research group Environment and Society in Developing Countries.
The study will be conducted as part of an EU-funded international research project RurbanAfrica, in collaboration with partners in several European and African countries See more information on the project at:
http://geo.ku.dk/english/research/re...arch_projects/
Thus, the PhD study will include extensive fieldwork in one or more of the case countries in Africa as well as participation in project activities, e.g. workshops, PhD seminars etc. with African and European partners.
http://www.ku.dk/english/available_positions/vip/