2015 AWARD Fellowship Laureates from left: Juliana Mandha (Tanzania), Ifeoluwa Olotu (Nigeria) and Ngozi Edoh (Nigeria), attending the Mentoring Orientation Workshop, being held in Nairobi, Kenya. The three are among 70 winners from 11 countries across Africa out of 1,109 applicants who applied to participate in the two-year career-development program for top women agricultural scientists.
AWARD is training today’s scientists to become tomorrow’s leaders. AWARD Fellows are bringing agricultural research to those who need it most: smallholder farmers.
2014 Ethiopian AWARD Participants: (from left) AWARD Fellows Zeweter Anley Gelaye, Program Analyst, Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), Amleset Haile Abreha, Assistant National Coordinator, CASCAPE, and Bezawit Worku Yenealem, Program Associate, ATA, with AWARD Mentors Sara Menker, CEO, Gro Ventures, and Amrote Abdella, Director, Venture Capital Start-ups, Microsoft Africa Initiatives.
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
Deutsche Welle Interviews AWARD Fellowship Laureates
In this candid interview of 2015 AWARD Fellowship laureates, Swahili radio journalist Carolyne Tsuma discusses the work and impact of the AWARD Fellowship to female agricultural scientists and researchers in Africa.
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.
