Husein Shahadu is a junior studying Management Information Systems at Ashesi University College. As a student passionate about agriculture, Husein helps to improve agricultural information accessibility and data management for farmers in his community. He has represented his community farmers on radio and on other agricultural platforms such as SADA (Savana Accelerated Development Agency) and Africa Lead to discuss ways to make agricultural information accessible to farmers – especially local farmers.

Husein is looking to explore and analyze innovative actions that can be taken to help build capacity for agricultural transformation. His areas of interests include; creating sustainable networks to increase agricultural performance and food security, global research and innovation, leadership in agriculture, gender equality and women empowerment in agriculture, sustainable consumption and production patterns, impact of climate change and environmental degradation on agricultural development and technology in agriculture.

Over the last years, Husein has worked with student run agricultural enterprises on campus such as Agripro and Sesa Mu and has also participated in workshops organized by Africa Lead, Feed the Future. This saw him receive a champion for change leadership in agriculture certificate from Africa Lead.