Sipiwe Manjengwa
| Organization | CommunityTechnology Development Organization |
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| Organization type | Civil Society Organization/NGO |
| Organization role |
Assitant Programme Manager
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| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Area of Expertise |
Farmer Filed School Appraoch, Participatory Variety Selection, Participatory Variety Enhancement, Diversity wheel analsysis ( both physical and digital), community seed banking, indegnous knowledge on climate change, community seed production and repatriation of lost varities from the genebanks for regeneration into the communities, promotion of negelated under utilized species ( NUS) and farmers' right
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I hold a MSc on Plant Sciences, specialization in Natural Resource Management and i am currently working to my PhD on food security with the University of KwaZulu Natal so I am an agricultural scientist by profession and i have 27 years working experience in agriculture, I have worked in public and NGO sectors.
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum E-consultation on ethical, legal and policy aspects of data sharing affecting farmers
Day 1: Major challenges from a policy legal and ethical perspective, preventing smallholder farmers benefiting from data sharing
Submitted by Sipiwe Manjengwa on Mon, 06/04/2018 - 13:10
Smallholder farmers are not given the platform on the policy dailogue and thier voices are not heard. when polices are developed the farmers are not consulted and the policies developed are not in favour of the farmers. In addition farmers do not have access to data especially the agricultural data. So information is power and smallholder faremers are found wanting when it scomes to data in agricultture.