The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa are organizing a forum that will bring together African women involved in agriculture. The purpose of the forum is to cultivate a growing pool of African women leaders to share new and innovative technologies to improve agriculture. This event will help encourage greater awareness about the use of biotechnology to address food security challenges.

Judy Chambers, Ph.D., Director of the Program for Biosafety Systems at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Patricia Zambrano, IFPRI Senior Research Analyst; Ruth Mbabazi, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor at the Collage of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University (CANR-MSU) and Ethel Makila, Communications Officer at the Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub will be in attendance as speakers.

You are invited to attend the opening at: 

Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017at 9:00 am

Venue: Elilly International Hotel

Please RSVP to Zelalem Befekadu (091 1509 522) or Ali Suleiman (091 150 9510).