Affiliateship: 2019-2023
Cohort 4
Country (Nationality)
Kenya
Discipline
Agricultural & Nutritional Sciences
Bio
Chomba is the programme manager for Regreening Africa at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Regreening Africa is an ambitious eight country programme aimed at reversing land degradation in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Somalia) and West Africa (Ghana, Niger, Mali and Senegal).
Susan holds a PhD in Forest Governance from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and a double MSc. degree in Agriculture development from the Universities of Copenhagen and Bangor University, UK; and a BSc. in Forestry from Moi University, Kenya.
She has over 10 years of research and development experience in NRM policies, climate change policies and local adaptation, democracy and decentralization of natural resources, gender, justice and equity. She has worked in various capacities in East and West Africa, including as an evaluator for development projects funded by EU, IFAD, USAID, among others.
Susan is passionate about applying research to inform development and works towards bridging the gap between the two. Susan believes research is critical for transforming lives and livelihoods of small holder farmers in Africa; and development interventions are most effective when they are informed by research and vice versa.
She likes reading, gardening and watching football, especially the World Cup, where she was the football captain in high school.