Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Namibia
Discipline
Agricultural & Nutritional Sciences
Bio
Dr Helena Shilomboleni is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Scaling Specialist with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa region. She holds a PhD in Social and Ecological Sustainability (2017) and MA in Global Governance (2012) from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her research broadly examines how best to achieve food security among Africa’s smallholder farmers in a manner that is both sustainable and equitable, and has analysed contributions from the African Green Revolution and the Food Sovereignty Movement. In recent years, her work focuses on international development efforts to scale up climate-smart innovations in smallholder food and agricultural systems under the new realities of climate change. She has led cross-project synthesis work on lessons learned from scaling up food security innovations in smallholder agriculture for the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and Farm Radio International. At CCAFS East Africa, she is currently supporting program efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of climate smart agriculture innovations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda under the Climate Resilient Agribusiness for Tomorrow (CRAFT) Project in order to build resilient food systems in East Africa.