New England/New York Area Lecture Tour

PROFESSOR AGNES WAKESHO MWANG’OMBE, PhD and DIC
Principal, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Will speak on:

Kenya’s Rural Women: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Arid Lands Challenges

(Falmouth topic, March 22, 2008
Tentative: 7:00 PM, Falmouth UU Fellowship)

Biographical Sketch

Education: Ph.D. Plant Pathology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine of Univ. of London, , MSc., (Plant Pathology& BSc Agriculture, University of Nairobi). Professional Experience: Principal, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Active researcher in agriculture, with sub-specialties in plant pathology, with emphasis on plant resistance to diseases, pathogens specialization, seed borne pathogens and diseases; Founder and Director of the Arid and Semi Arid Lands Foundation (ASALFO), a Kenya-based NGO; Expert in agriculture, environment, and tertiary education; and agricultural sustainability; active researcher and scholar in agriculture; agricultural sustainability in arid lands; climate change and agriculture in arid lands. Integrates gender issues in agricultural and education activities.

Honoraria are gratefully appreciated

All Honoraria, payable to ASALFO will support Higher Education scholarships for Kenya’s Pastoralist Girls

 

 

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