Nyasha Mudukuti

Company: Alliance for Science

Job title: Science & Communications Associate

Bio:

Nyasha currently serves as the Science and communications associate with the Alliance for Science. She is a Mastercard Foundation scholar from Michigan State University who majored in plant breeding, genetics and biotechnology. She received her BSc honors graduate degree in biotechnology from Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. Nyasha served as the 2016 AGCO Africa Ambassador, advocating for agricultural reforms across the African continent. She was a speaker at the 2019 Oxford Farming Conference and a 2019 Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellow. She also participated in the World Food Prize’s Borlaug Dialogue in both 2014 and 2018. Additionally, she is a member of the Global Farmers Network, a proud Global Youth Ambassador fellow of the United Nations initiative “A World at School”. Her dream is to help her continent see the importance of biotechnology in agriculture and use it to improve the livelihoods of African smallholder farmers

Seminars:

Understanding the Barriers to Bringing a Commercial Product to Market: Successes & Challenges 1:30 pm

Discussing the value in bringing CRISPR crops to market – are they being well received? Understanding the relative risks and benefits surrounding regulatory decisions and outcomes Effectively engaging with policy makers and developing consumer-centred programsRead more

day: Day Two