{"id":6095,"date":"2019-10-23T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"how-these-female-scientists-will-help-africa-adapt-to-changing-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/23\/how-these-female-scientists-will-help-africa-adapt-to-changing-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"How These Female Scientists Will Help Africa Adapt to Changing Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <strong>By David Njagi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 A group of 25 women from eastern and western Africa have joined the list of young researchers racing to bridge the shortage of women agriculture scientists in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women will build the next generation of scientists working with smallholder farmers to battle climate change in Africa&#8217;s troubled agriculture sector, according to the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are giving women more slots in this fellowship programme to equip them with social inclusive skills which will help them work with smallholder farmers in Africa,&#8221; said Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, the director of AWARD in Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A research paper published by the journal of gender, agriculture and food security in 2017, reported that women scientists working in the agriculture sector accounted for 24% of Africa&#8217;s knowledge pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet women are dominant in the continent&#8217;s agricultural production chain, where most of them work in rural smallholder farms, Leticia Osalo-Adalo, a social entrepreneur, said during the 2019 AGRF held in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the One Planet Fellowship, which is a collaboration between the Agropolis Fondation and AWARD hopes to change this by awarding climate change research fellowships to Africa&#8217;s youth, especially women, said Kamau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of its kind in Africa, the fellowship is working with 45 researchers from Benin, Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201910150099.html\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Njagi Nairobi \u2014 A group of 25 women from eastern and western Africa have joined the list of young researchers racing to bridge the shortage of women agriculture&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}