Margaret Syomiti

Research area: Studying the value addition of agro-industrial waste as feed for livestock in Kenya.

Margaret Syomiti traces her love of livestock back to her grandmother, a farmer in Kenya’s Kwale district. “When a hyena killed my grandmother’s fattest goat, she brought all the others into the house to sleep beside her,” recalls Syomiti, who says this incident inspired her desire to improve the livelihoods of livestock farmers.

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