March 18, 2025 – The Call to apply for the 2025 Young Impact Associates (YIA) in Agrifood Systems Fellowship is now open. Are you a young African passionate about driving transformational change through data-driven decisions in African agrifood systems? Are…...

In a world where balancing roles—especially for women in the workplace and academia—can often feel like an impossible juggling act, the story of Dr. Evelyn Asante Yeboah, a 2011 AWARD Fellow, and a natural resources scientist, shines as a beacon…...

African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) announces the selection of 47 female professionals working on climate solutions into its Climate Action Fellowship. February 3, NAIROBI- A new Fellowship seeking to achieve a twin goal of increasing the number…...

Dr. Mariama Ngom, a Researcher at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, is a 2019 African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellow and a mentor under the One Planet Fellowship. She works on valorizing neglected crops with nutritional…...

2018 AWARD Fellow Dr. Matilda Bissah is researching how to address the high levels of sub-soil salinity found particularly in rice farming. She is breeding superior rice varieties that are tolerant to abiotic stresses such as salt, heat, and cold,…...

Overwhelming evidence has shown that women provide 60-80% of Africa’s agricultural labor. Yet women farmers in sub-Saharan Africa manage 20-30% less productive plots of land than men, not because of a skill or effort issue but because of unequal access…...