Kenya's Rural Women: Sustainability, Climate Change and Arid Lands Challenges
A lecture by Dr. Agnes Wakesho Mwang’ombe
Director of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Foundation Nairobi, Kenya
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 4 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Wheelock College and the Colleges of the Fenway Environmental Science Program
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Time:
Thursday, March 20, 2008
4 p.m.
Reception to followLocation:
Wheelock College
43 Hawes Street
Brookline, MA
Dr. Agnes Wakesho Mwang'ombe, feminist, scholar and activist, is Principal
of the University of Nairobi College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences.
She is also the founder of the Kenya-based non-governmental organization (NGO)
the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Foundation (ASALFO) in 2000, and serves as its
director. Trained as a botanist, her scientific research is in plant
pathology, agricultural development and arid lands sustainability.
She has published in numerous scientific journals, including the Kenya Journal of Sciences, European Journal of Plant Pathology and the East African Agriculture and Forestry Journal. She has served as officer, director, and board member of many Kenyan and African professional societies and organizations, including the Kenya Professional Association of Women in Agriculture and Environment (KEPAWAE), of which she was its first chairperson.
She also serves as consultant to NGOs related to agriculture technology transfer, higher education program development and access, climate change in Africa, AIDS and its impact on agriculture and indigenous farming initiatives. She is particularly interested in connecting women's issues—higher education access, health and welfare—with development and sustainability issues.
