Participate in 21st annual Global Youth Institute by The World Food Prize All eligible participants are invited to take part in 21st annual Global Youth Institute organized by The World Food Prize. This institute will take place in Des Moines, Iowa, October 16-18, 2014. The World Food Prize was conceived by Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. The goal of this programme is to overcome hunger and poverty by increasing agricultural productivity will then have to be adapted to local climatic circumstances, guided by the farmers themselves, and more readily available to them by appropriate means. By participating in the Global Youth Institute, students are eligible to apply for a prestigious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship or USDA Wallace-Carver Fellowship. --Borlaug-Ruan International Internship: an all-expenses-paid, eight-week hands-on experience for high school students to work with world-renowned scientists and policymakers at leading research centers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Since 1998, 204 Borlaug-Ruan Interns have traveled to Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Turkey to get a firsthand view of pressing food security and nutritional problems in poverty-stricken areas and take part in ground-breaking research. --Wallace-Carver Fellowship: a paid two-month research or policy placement at a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory or field office, or at USDA headquarters in Washington D.C. In 2014, up to 100 Wallace-Carver Fellows will intern at USDA, analyzing agricultural and economic policy; assisting in the management of food, nutrition and rural development programs; and taking part in groundbreaking field and laboratory-based research. Fellows travel to Washington DC at the start of their internship for a week-long high-level leadership program hosted by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. How to take part? To participate, students research a global issue and write a five-page paper under the supervision of a teacher mentor. Each high school must register their student delegate nominee(s) and submit each student’s research paper online by the mentioned deadline. Eligibility criteria: High School students outside Us are eligible to apply. Deadline: 1 August 2014 worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=67715&audienceID=1
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