{"id":1241,"date":"2025-01-07T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:36:27","slug":"southeast-asian-regional-center-for-graduate-study-and-research-in-agriculture-searca-photo-contest-2024-1000-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Photo Contest 2024 ($1,000 prize)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deadline: January 15, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applications are open for the\u00a0Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Photo Contest 2024. The theme, \u201c<em>The Future of Farming: Pathways to Carbon-Neutral Agriculture<\/em>,\u201d of the 18th Photo Contest of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), is timely as agriculture face many challenges.<\/p>\n<p>By 2050, the world will need to produce 70 percent more food and the demand is continuously growing as the population races toward 10 billion in 2050, says a UN report. Worldwide, around 800 million people suffer from hunger. And if things won\u2019t change, around 650 million (8%) of the world\u2019s population will still be undernourished by 2030. In addition to these needs, the pressure to produce more is set in the backdrop of an intensifying climate change-related issues. Agriculture needs to thrive and be climate change-resilient while facing further challenges such less labor, less water, less agricultural land, lack of access to technologies, among other resources.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, this year\u2019s theme celebrates the innovations and solutions to the many issues and problems being faced by an Asian farmer in a sustainable and environment-friendly manner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Prize: $1,000<\/li>\n<li>2nd Prize: $800<\/li>\n<li>3rd Prize: $600<\/li>\n<li>SEARCA Director\u2019s Choice: $500<\/li>\n<li>Philippine Department of Education Secretary\u2019s Choice: $500<\/li>\n<li>Best Youth Photographer: $300<\/li>\n<li>People\u2019s Choice Award: $300<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open to all Southeast Asian nationals except SEARCA staff and their immediate family members.<\/li>\n<li>Entries must be digital, colored, in JPEG format, and at least 3,000 pixels wide for a horizontal image, or 3,000 pixels tall for a vertical image at 300 dpi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Relevance to the theme: 40%<\/li>\n<li>Technical quality*: 30%<\/li>\n<li>Impact: 30%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All entries must be submitted online on or before October 18, 2024\u2013January 15, 2025 (GMT +08:00).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/photocontest.searca.org\/2024#submit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to apply<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"12e8abe62ae64b91c0bfbd6c80849a4d\" data-index=\"2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_4_host\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/photocontest.searca.org\/2024#Theme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEARCA Contest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"12e8abe62ae64b91c0bfbd6c80849a4d\" data-index=\"3\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: January 15, 2025 Applications are open for the\u00a0Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Photo Contest 2024. The theme, \u201cThe Future of Farming: Pathways to Carbon-Neutral Agriculture,\u201d of the 18th Photo Contest of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), is timely as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1K2_DA:productID":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-for-applications"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}