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2017 World Food Prize: Experience of a Lifetime

Submitted by Bonphace Mangeni on November 13, 2017 - 2:53pm

Author Bonphace Mangeni is a Kenyan PhD student studying Crop Protection (Plant Virology at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya.  He is a 2013 Borlaug LEAP Fellow. 

This was my first time to attend the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.  I was very excited to receive the news to participate in the World Food Prize 2017 events as a delegate selected by Borlaug LEAP. It was an opportunity to meet with the powers driving global agriculture and food production.

Can bio-fortified foods help Africa achieve food security?

Submitted by Kassahun Kelifa... on October 4, 2016 - 4:08pm

Kenyan Women Sweet Potato pic

The upcoming 2016 World Food Prize will honor contributions in the field of biofortification. With almost one person in four being undernourished in Africa, 2015 Borlaug Fellow Dr. Kassahun Kelifa Suleman explores what recent experiences tell us about the role that biofortified foods can play in ensuring nutritious and safe food for the continent.

A Passion for Change Leads to Political Career

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 9, 2016 - 11:32am

2009 Borlaug LEAP Fellow, Dr. Eusebius Mukhwana is passionate about creating change for the better. As a veterinarian, he expressed his passion through caring for animals. As a professor, he transferred that passion to others through teaching. And now, as he pursues government work, he is taking that passion for change to the policy-makers themselves as the Deputy Commission Secretary in charge of Planning, Research and Development at the Commission for University Education (CUE) in Kenya.

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