Graduate Scholarship Program

The Graduate Scholarship Program aims to award graduate scholarships to highly qualified Southeast Asians to pursue graduate studies in agriculture, forestry and related science.

Types of SEARCA Graduate Scholarships

• Full Master’s and PhD degree Scholarship
• PhD Research Scholarship

Priority Thrusts

For its Tenth Five Year Plan, SEARCA will focus on the overarching theme of Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development (ISARD). Thus, areas of specialization of SEARCA Master’s and PhD degree scholarships are agriculture and related science, which include but are not limited to those that fall under the following program clusters:

• Agricultural/Biological sciences
• Social Sciences
• Economics and Agribusiness
• Forestry and Fisheries
• Environmental Sciences
• Agro-industrial Technology and Engineering

Moreover, priority research topics must fall within the following ISARD sub-themes:

• Strengthening of value chains and agribusiness commodity systems
• Linking the small-scale farmers and other marginalized groups with the commercial food systems
• Food and nutrition security
• Agricultural productivity
• Rural entrepreneurship
• Climate change adaptation and resiliency, risk mitigation/management, and climate-smart agriculture
• Natural resource management (agro-biodiversity conservation, organic farming, conservation farming, agri-tourism, land and water resource management)
• Sub-regional cooperation in trade and investments
• ASEAN Regional Economic Integration (AFTA and AEC 2015)

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