OUR FELLOWS
Prisila Andrea Mkenda was born and raised in Kilimanjaro, where her hard-working parents, who encouraged everyone in their large family to study hard, continue to make their living as smallholder farmers. Today, Mkenda, a mother of young twin boys herself, relishes the opportunity to help improve the livelihoods of farmers like her parents.
These pests can cause severe losses of more than 80 percent in common bean yield and quality. I want to provide farmers with a simple soap and water solution that they can use to kill them.
Field of Research
My hope is that the search for naturally occurring biologicals will lead to the discovery of various compounds that will improve agricultural processes, as well as those in other sectors such as health and industry.