AWARD Master Class: Building One’s Visibility as a Young Scientist

A Kenyan AWARD Mentor Named the 2025 Africa Food Prize Winner

Professor Mary Abukutsa Onyango, a renowned Kenyan scientist who has extensively worked on African leafy vegetables and championed their consumption for improved, affordable nutrition, has received the prestigious Africa Food Prize. Announced on September 3rd at the 2025 Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal, professor Abukutsa Onyango was named the 2025 Africa Food Prize Laureate alongside Dr. Mercy […]

From Numbers to Narrative: In Pursuit of Gendered Data to Transform Nigeria’s Aquaculture

Aquaculture is vital to food and nutrition security, economic empowerment, and employment for millions globally. However, its benefits are not evenly distributed in households between men and women due to gender-based constraints that limit maximum returns. “For decades now, Nigerian value chain analyses have connoted ‘household head’ as a single unit”, a challenge that glosses over […]

Better Seeds, Local Veggie Revolution in Benin | Powering Planetary Change

“Powering Planetary Change: Climate Solutions for Africa, by Africa” is a groundbreaking documentary series produced by the African Women in Agricultural Research for Development (AWARD). This series highlights innovative research interventions and scientific advancements led by African scientists, beneficiaries of the AWARD One Planet Fellowship Program. In this video, we feature Pamela Afokpe, a manager […]

53 Women Advancing Climate Solutions Join a Fellowship to Accelerate Their Impact

After a rigorous selection and review process, AWARD is pleased to announce the onboarding of 53 outstanding Climate Fellows into the second cohort of the Accelerating African Women’s Leadership in Climate Action Fellowship. Drawn from 48 institutions across Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Senegal, the new Climate Fellows will undertake a two-year Fellowship tailored […]

AWARD at CGIAR International Gender Conference 2025

The International Gender Conference themed “Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems: Driving solutions through Evidence and Learning” brings together researchers from various organizations and knowledge users policymakers, practitioners, private sector actors, local and indigenous communities and others who work toward creating innovations and generating evidence to transform food systems. The conference will be […]

Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development Participates in a Training on Gender and Agrifood Systems

Recent evidence indicates that achieving equitable agrifood systems calls for an urgent need to make gender equality and women’s empowerment a mandatory part of food security and nutrition policies and country action plans. That is why African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) together with its partners are intensifying efforts towards integration of gender […]

From Numbers to Narrative: In Pursuit of Gendered Data to Transform Nigeria’s Aquaculture

Aquaculture is vital to food and nutrition security, economic empowerment, and employment for millions globally. However, its benefits are not evenly distributed in households between men and women due to gender-based constraints that limit maximum returns. “For decades now, Nigerian value chain analyses have connoted ‘household head’ as a single unit”, a challenge that glosses […]

A Kenyan AWARD Mentor Named the 2025 Africa Food Prize Winner

Professor Mary Abukutsa Onyango, a renowned Kenyan scientist who has extensively worked on African leafy vegetables and championed their consumption for improved, affordable nutrition, has received the prestigious Africa Food Prize. Announced on September 3rd at the 2025 Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal, professor Abukutsa Onyango was named the 2025 Africa Food Prize […]

 Report: The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich (NRI) and African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD was presented on 2 September 2025 during the Africa Food Systems Forum in […]