Osazoduwa Marian Ekebafe, whose name means “God chooses your pathway in life,” is confident that she is on the right road as she applies her lifelong passion for chemistry to helping women farmers increase their crop yields by recycling biomass waste.
She remembers being fascinated as a child as she watched her grandmother prepare a delicious “black soup” out of plantain peels. “I was intrigued that she was able to make something useful out of what most people saw as waste.
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These are the women who grow and market the continent’s crops, and my objective is to help them in whatever way I can. I hope they will understand that this technology will help to increase their crop yields, and that they will join with me in implementing it. I am convinced that biochar will help to reduce poverty in Africa.