OUR FELLOWS
Mwanaisha Mkangara is committed to helping pastoral communities in Tanzania, where many smallholder farmers lose livestock due to tick-borne diseases. After completing a BSc in Education at the Open University of Tanzania, she pursued her interest in medicinal plants and biotechnology, recently completing a master’s in Life Sciences and Engineering at NM-AIST.
My goal is to use my biotechnology skills to help smallholder farmers raise their agricultural production.
Field of Research
I have learned the importance of building networks by collaborating with other professionals. I want to increase my visibility in the scientific community, and will take advantage of the opportunity to access scientific publications.
Fellows Stories
Meet a Tanzanian scientist leveraging traditional knowledge for lab-bred solutions to livestock pests
Date: June 30, 2020
Pest infestation is a huge challenge that livestock keepers continuously face. Medicines for control and treatment of pest-related diseases are costly and sometimes inaccessible for most rural farmers. A 2015 AWARD Fellow and a research fellow at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Mwanaisha Mkangara, is building on traditional methods of pest control to develop more sustainable and accessible options for farmers. Using locally available herbal plants and her scientific skills, Mkangara has produced a cheaper and more accessible alternative method for livestock pest control.
Fellows Stories
New Video: Leveraging Traditional Knowledge for Lab-bred Solutions to Livestock Pests
Date: March 9, 2018
Pest infestation is a huge challenge that livestock keepers continuously face. Medicines for control and treatment of pest-related diseases are costly and sometimes inaccessible for most rural farmers. A 2015 AWARD Fellow and a research fellow at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Mwanaisha Mkangara, is building on traditional methods of pest control to develop more sustainable and accessible options for farmers. Using locally available herbal plants and her scientific skills, Mkangara has produced a cheaper and more accessible alternative method for livestock pest control.