The Agriculture, Water and Climate Research Group and the Institute of Environmental Research in Manchester (MERI), led by Dr. Tim Foster, is seeking to appoint a gifted and enthusiastic post -Doctive researcher participant (PDRA) to play a major role in providing a new and exciting investment project (IRREO) that would play a role in the field of investment in Africa (IRRO).

Irrigation expanding is very important to adapt to the climate and improve food security in SSA. However, the ability to design and implement sustainable and cost -effective irrigation investments remain restricted due to the lack of data around the current range of irrigation and how the irrigated areas have responded to previous investments. The IRRRO project seeks to address this main knowledge gap by taking advantage of the progress of land monitoring (EO) and data science technologies to develop EO mapping tools and the ability to enable governments, and to finance, monitor and evaluate investments in the field of investments.

As part of the IRRRO project, PDRA will lead the development and verification of the health of the irrigated national region and the agricultural mapping algorithms in two of the three -case study countries of the project (Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya). PDRA work will combine the wide wound data collected by local field teams, land monitoring photos (Spot, Sentinel -1 and -2, Landsat), and deep learning techniques to estimate the historical dynamics of small irrigated agriculture and the development of an interactive irrigation mapping tool box for users and the method. By taking advantage of the appointment data created by this research, PDRA will cooperate with social science professionals in UOM research partners and research partners within the country to target in -depth field investigations of hot irrigation points to deepen understanding of drivers and social and economic results of successful successful (UN).

PDRA will be a key member of the IRRRO project team, and works closely with the main investigator Dr. Tim Foster (Civil Engineering and Management Department), the participating beneficiaries Dr. Poliana Da Conceio (Department of Geography) and Dr. Rose Bretchard (Global Development Institute), as well as two sense of centers and social sciences). This role also includes close cooperation with academic and non -academic partners in the project study countries (Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia) and active back with international partners and international partners including Airbus, the World Bank and the Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation.

As equal opportunities, the employer supports a comprehensive work environment and we welcome applicants from all sections of society regardless of age, disability, race, gender, sexual expression, religion, belief, sex, sexual inclination, and transgender status. All dates are made on merit.

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The hybrid work arrangements can be considered.

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Name: Dr. Tim Foster, Aquaculture Security Reader and Director of the Manchester Institute for Environmental Research (MERI)

Email: Timothy.foster@manchester.ac.uk

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