Africa, Climate Change, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Gender, Global, Headlines, TerraViva United Nations, Women & Climate Change | Opinion Esther Ngumbi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University in Alabama. She serves as a 2015 Clinton Global University (CGI U) Mentor for Agriculture and is a 2015 New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute. These women are on the front-line of the fight against climate change, and their ingenuity and…
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