I am currently an astute youth here in Nigeria,a social entreprenuer I have volunteered for several NGOs on youth capacity development and currently have a proposal on bringing youth involvement in Agriculture which I would be presenting in Rhodes youth forum 2012.

Animal Nutritionist Program Director for Environment and Natural Resource Management, JIRCAS

Katindi Sivi-Njonjo is currently a Programme Director at the Society for International Development. In the past 10 years she worked as the head of Futures at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya (a research and policy analysis think tank) where she disseminated Kenya’s first scenarios stories countrywide. She led a group of young Kenyans in developing their vision for Kenya and lobbied the government to conceptualize a long term vision for Kenya, currently refered to as Vision 2030.

I have Ph.D. in Plant Physiology. After teaching in Universities for about 20 years, have joined CGIAR system. I am working with ICARDA in Afghanistan for the last 8 years, out of which more than 5 years as Head of ICARDA program in Afghanistan. Program is comparatively large, and includes activity covering almost all aspects of dryland agriculture. Working with more than 1000 Afghan women is among some of the successful interventions.

ACERCD is a rural based non profit , non governmental organisation created in 1998 by a panel of experts to promote agriculture and aquaculture,
Aimed at guaranteing food security , eradicating hunger and to alleviate poverty among women and youth, in the rural world, it is through this vital capacity building events that we are able to achieve our goal,