World’s richest man and CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has hailed the efforts of an Ethiopian plant pathologist working to positively impact the lives of small-scale farmers across the world. She has been back in Africa for a decade now after over two and half decades working abroad. “Food security is not just an African challenge, it is a global challenge. Investment in African agriculture, investment in African research is actually investment for mankind as a whole,” she stressed. She has experienced the challenges and successes associated with African agriculture first-hand, from tending the field to directing a world-class laboratories, the icipe website wrote about its first female head.

Source: Ethiopian News January 08, 2018 09:11 UTC