CLIFOOD Scholarship
Food security is highly sensitive to climate risks in the Eastern African region. Food production, access to markets, and income from agricultural activities are connected inseparably with climate-related events and food security crises.
Currently, Ethiopia is facing one of the most severe droughts in half a century due to the effects of El Niño. Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa and agriculture is the backbone of Ethiopian economy. In 2016, the Ethiopian government has committed itself for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030.
The DAAD program ‘Bilateral SDG Graduate School’ funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), seeks to help achieve the new Development Goals by funding bilateral higher education institution partnerships in establishing SDG graduate schools in developing countries. To this purpose, the German-Ethiopian SDG Graduate School “Climate Change Effects on Food Security (CLIFOOD)” between the University of Hohenheim (Germany) and the Hawassa University (Ethiopia) has been established.
Main objective of CLIFOOD is to educate students at the doctorate and postdoctoral level in the field of climate change, agriculture and food security having the greatest possible interdisciplinary content to address the threats of climate change to food and nutrition security in the Eastern African region. 6 structured block seminars dealing with CLIFOOD related topics as well as soft skill courses are offered and will be obligatory for one PhD generation.