The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) is an international, non-profit agricultural research center established in 1999 through the visionary leadership of the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund, and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD),. ICBA is a unique applied agricultural research center focused on marginal areas where an estimated 1.7 billion people live. It identifies, tests, and introduces resource-efficient, climate-smart crops and technologies that are best suited to different regions affected by salinity, water scarcity, and drought. ICBA helps improve food security and livelihoods for some of the poorest rural communities worldwide through its work. ICBA is an equal opportunity employer and appoints qualified staff regardless of race, creed, color, age, gender, religion, or national origin.
As part of ICBA’s efforts to reach more stakeholders worldwide and transfer knowledge through capacity development offerings, ICBA is developing an E-Learning platform. This platform will provide a collection of digitized training courses on different topics. These courses will target stakeholders worldwide, including experts, technicians, extension officers, and graduate and postgraduate students.
The assignment for this consultancy is to develop an E-learning course material on “Farm Waste Management in Marginal Environments.” The course targets agribusiness managers, farm owners, professionals, experts, technicians, and extension officers in fields related to farm waste management. The language of the course is English.
This e-learning course on “Farm Waste Management in Marginal Environments” should be designed to provide participants with an understanding of the concept of farm waste management in marginal environments and its role in saving valuable natural resources and sustainability of the agricultural sector. The course will introduce biological processes employed for treating agricultural, municipal, industrial, and agro-processing residues and wastes. It will include biological, physical, and chemical principles related to the characterization and analysis of pollutants, biological and physio-chemical transformation of pollutants, and engineering principles for designing and operating treatment systems. The course will equip learners with a comprehension of the fundamentals, tools, opportunities, and approaches to the challenges of managing farm resources in marginal environments. Learners will explore existing technologies and their adaptability to address these challenges and ensure an understanding of the subject matter.
The learning objectives of the course are:
Gain Knowledge in sustainable waste & environmental management systems.
Characterization and analysis of waste.
Understand and apply different types of waste, their handling, storage, disposal requirements, and their potential effect on the environment for sustainable development.
Biological waste treatment.
Biological wastewater treatment systems
Identify the key challenges and constraints in collecting and re-utilizing farm waste.
Understand the modern and best farm management practices.
Evaluate the environmental impact of wasted farm resources in marginal environments.
Identification of the cost-effectiveness of managing waste efficiently.
The consultancy will include the following deliverables:
Other requirements
The consultant will prepare the training content using ICBA templates and branding guidelines.
ICBA will keep the right to use the provided material in other training contents and/or translate them to other languages while maintaining the credit to the author.
The consultant is expected to finalize the course material within four months after signing the consultancy agreement.
The consultant should provide ICBA with an updated CV and a passport copy.
The consultant must provide links to all open-source images, videos, data, and similar resources used in the training. ICBA can share their resources to include in the contents, if available
