International Plant Health Day: African Leafy Vegetables and a Kenyan Biosytems Engineer.
This International Day of Plant Health under the theme: Plant health, Safe trade & Digital Technology, we would like to celebrate the efforts of 2021 Mawazo Fellow, Dorcas Bernard on her efforts to increase production of African Leafy Vegetable’s (ALVs) through her study of the use of Super Absorbent Polymers (SAP) in the irrigation of […]
Meet the Ethiopian scientist tackling food security through sustainable practices
Amidst this crisis, individuals like Desta Gebeyehu, a 2021 Mawazo Fellow from Ethiopia, are taking proactive steps to address food security in their home countries. Desta is focusing on implementing sustainable practices within the agricultural sector of Ethiopia to combat malnutrition and enhance food security. U.S.A.’s International Trade Organization states that despite agriculture being a […]
Meet the Kenyan Medical Entomologist researching malaria prevention
On World Malaria Day, April 25th 2024, to celebrate the gains that African researchers have made in malaria treatment and prevention, we interviewed our very own 2021 Mawazo Fellow, Kenyan Medical Entomologist Dr. Trizah Milugo MI: What are the rates of malaria in Kenya? According to the latest reports by the World Health Organisation (WHO), […]