Lillian Beauttah is one of the young entrepreneurs in agriculture who made it to the final of Youth Agripreneurs Project (YAP) competition organized by GFAR, CGIAR and YPARD. She works for “Afrika Jilishe”, a social enterprise that aims to increase resilience against climate change for nomadic pastoralists. She talked to social media reporter Ratih Nawangwulan about the … More “Plug-n-Play” Solutions for Turkana’s Nomads

At first I thought there were few young researchers at the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) on 5-8 April 2016 in South Africa. I thought the conference might just be another typical ‘scientific event’ attended by various stakeholders, many of whom were ‘senior scientists’. That was until I met Febri Doni. Febri … More Technology and agriculture: The perspective of a young rice scientist