Internship Opportunity at World Veg – August 2024; With its headquarters located in Taiwan and five regional offices spread out across the world, the World Vegetable institution (WorldVeg) is an independent, non-profit worldwide agricultural research institution. To realize the potential of vegetables for healthier lives and more resilient livelihoods, WorldVeg carries out research and development activities. Please visit our website at www.avrdc.org for further information.
The Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH) Initiative, a component of CGIAR’s Research Portfolio, collaborates with partners to tackle the issues that lead to inadequate dietary habits. The FRESH project increases fruit and vegetable intake for numerous outcomes by taking an end-to-end strategy, starting with consumers and moving back through the food system. Under FRESH, WorldVeg offers support for several job packages. This advertisement relates to Work Package 4: Postharvest and Inclusive Markets, which is funded by the Australian Horticultural Research and Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands. Using a demand-led and co-creative approach, WorldVeg is testing devices like evaporative coolers, plastic crates, paper-lined wooden crates, and cool boxes to improve food safety and reduce postharvest loss.
Key duties of the intern
- To create a plan for testing the plastic crate business model and carry out the trial with different participants in the value chain.
- To evaluate the plastic crate business model’s advantages and disadvantages as well as its ability to reduce postharvest loss.
- To gather information, evaluate it, and produce a report on the usefulness of plastic crates as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the plastic crate business model.
- To aid in developing a scalability plan for the top-performing postharvest technology.
Requirements
- A master’s degree in any relevant field, such as agribusiness management, food safety, or agricultural economics.
- A solid grasp of postharvest loss assessment in developing nations’ agricultural value chains.
- Strong understanding and background in developing and executing postharvest loss mitigation strategies across agricultural value chains.
- Outstanding abilities to acquire data both qualitatively and quantitatively.
- Competent with STATA data analysis.
- Outstanding English, both spoken and written.
- The capacity to work under pressure and in both independent and team-oriented, collaborative, and multicultural environments.
This internship position is competitive and will begin as soon as possible and go until the end of December 2024. The intern will work full-time from WorldVeg’s Arusha office, visiting the project sites in the Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions on a regular basis. Tanzanian natives are eligible to apply for this role. For the duration of the engagement, a competitive monthly stipend will be provided.
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Application Process
Interested parties may apply for the post by contacting info-esa@worldveg.org with their resume, cover letter, and referees’ contact information. Kindly include “Postharvest Intern” in the subject line. The deadline for applications is August 23, 2024. The only applicant that is chosen will be in contact.
