From Family Farming to Facing Africa’s Malnutrition: The Journey of Christine Chege

Christine Chege is an agri-nutrition and food systems expert at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Nairobi. Her work focuses on how improving food systems can improve nutrition, particularly among low-income urban consumers.

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Having grown up on a farm in rural Kenya, Christine Chege has always been aware of the challenges of food production in Africa: “I remember asking my dad, ‘Why do you always plant maize? I don’t see the economic benefit of maize’”, she remembers. But it wasn’t until years later that Chege became interested in the other side of the food systems equation: consumers.

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