AWARD Mentor Aster Zaoude Zerefa, UNDP (Retired), and her 2014 AWARD Fellow Eden Getachew Tolossa Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency.
AWARD Fellow and University of Nairobi lecturer, Dr. Jane Ambuko during her presentation on the Coolbot technology and ongoing work on post harvest losses in Africa. Dr. Ambuko was speaking during a special panel session organized by AWARD at the African Conference of Science Journalists held in Nairobi. Read more
AWARD Fellow Bettie Kawonga has won $150,000 to establish a network of community business incubation centers, which will enable under-employed Malawian youth to become successful entrepreneurs in the dairy sector. Read more
AWARD Fellow Mary Njenga, a post-doctoral fellow researching bioenergy at the World Agroforestry Centre, is developing briquette technology as an inexpensive and environmentally friendly source of fuel. Njenga will speak during an AWARD panel session on October 15 at the African Conference of Science Journalists. Photo: Tabitha Obara/ICRAF
AWARD Director Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg speaks about investing in female scientists to feed Africa in this video interview with SciDev.net. Read more
“AWARD shows you how you can reach your potential, not just by yourself, but with a network of women and men in the scientific field,” says AWARD Fellow Dr. Nina Wambiji, a research scientist with the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute. Watch the video
AWARD seeks to recruit Deputy Director, Gender Responsive Agriculture
African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is recruiting a Deputy Director, Gender Responsive Agriculture, to lead major initiatives that raise AWARD’s regional and global profile as a leader in the gender responsive agriculture agenda.
The Big Bet
Bill and Melinda Gates recently published their annual letter, focused on one big bet: that the lives of people in poor countries will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history for the next 15 years.
