Centre for Development Practice

Centre for Development Practice (www.cdp.res.in) in collaboration with the School of Vocational Studiesis setting up a pop up kitchen on Friday, November 15, 2019 to put to display food from Jharkhand, Odisha and Chattisgarh. The food on display has been cooked from food grains and vegetables grown in these three states with indigenous seeds and indigenous know-how; fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides have not been used. This is largely an initiative of the CDP Fellows in Action Researchand Research Associates and the students of BVoc Tourism and Hospitality. The effort is born out of a response to the process of the gradual loss of difference in food cultures. The attempt, in this pop up kitchen, is to one, bring the consumer and producer closer by informing the former about the latter and the processes the latter deploys; two, to carry the diverse menu of rural local food to the urban globalised dining culture. This pop up kitchen also aims to bring recipes from the (rural) producer’s world to AUD so as to represent, in however limited a form, the hidden diversity of food cultures in our country such that it not only reduces the producer-consumer gap but also pays attention towards how our food habits are increasingly becoming inclined towards the “polished” (‘white rice’ for example) than what is “nutritional”. However, the whole effort is not limited to the pursuit of knowing about local food cultures but about the experience of cooking such food and getting a taste of the diverse food cultures of rural central India. We invite you to visit our pop up kitchen unit between 12 noon and 2 pm (beside the Cafeteria, Ambedkar University Delhi, Karampura Campus); a rather diverse menu from Jharkhand, Odisha and Chattisgarh shall be on display for all of us as perhaps a welcome break.
Kindly join us for lunch tomorrow.

The Centre for Development Practice at Ambedkar University Delhi (hereon referred to as CDP) invites applications for 1 (one) faculty position under the Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) project housed at CDP. The centre is looking for applicants with considerable experience of being engaged in projects related to political economy and political ecology with a sound understanding of the development sector, which is the primary focus of the NTFP project.
The roles and responsibilities of the position are as mentioned below:
1. Provide inputs and design project strategies along with the team at CDP
2. Ensure project commitments and deliverables are met
3. Oversee project accounts and reporting
4. Facilitate stakeholder/partner communication and coordination
5. Plan and visit students, stakeholders and partners working in various CDP field sites
The position will be offered on a temporary contractual basis from September 2019 to November 2019 which might be extended at the end of the contract period based on performance and requirement.
Interested applicants are required to mail their resume (CV) along with a letter of intent (LOI) describing their work/areas of interest to [email protected].

The Centre for Development Practice, Ambedkar University is looking for a suitable candidate for the post of Research Associate (positions -2) to work full time on the NTFP project by The Ford Foundation. The duration of the project would be for 6 months .The candidate must have a Master’s degree in Social Sciences or Ecology, preferably with a research degree or should have previous work experience of 2 years. The candidate should be willing to undertake field visits as and when required for the project. The candidate should have experience of conduction field studies and preparing reports.

Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview and no TA/DA will be given for attending the interview in Delhi.

Interested candidates may send their detailed resume to: [email protected] .The last date of application (email applications) is 5th January, 2017.