OUR FELLOWS
Lydia Nakagiri grew up in a farming family, not far from Kampala, Uganda, where she learned to appreciate the importance of agriculture as a source of food and employment. “We cultivated a little coffee for cash, but mostly grew subsistence crops. When there was no money for school fees, my parents used the food we had grown as payment,” she recounts.
I learned how poor nutrition affects many women and children,” says Nakagiri, who felt a pressing need to get involved. Moving to the city and meeting women who were more empowered than those in her village motivated her even further to make a difference. “I know what rural women, like my mother, go through,” she says. “My heart goes out to them, and I feel strongly that something must change.
Field of Research
Participatory development of nutritionally enhanced food products from yam bean (Pachyrhizus sp.) roots in Luwero and Serere districts.