CIMMYT has launched a ‘TED Talk meets fireside chat’-style series on women leaders. As Marion Wright Edelman said, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” If we want more women leaders in science institutions like ours, we need to provide more opportunities to hear from women leaders about their life journeys, lessons, and insights. We seek to highlight women who are leaders in all sorts of capacities, fields and disciplines, because we believe that leadership styles can take many different forms.
This is our latest episode from the series Catalysts of Change, from Tuesday May 7th, 2024.
Presenting Name Saweda Liverpool-Tasie.
Saweda Liverpool-Tasie is a Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at the Michigan State University Foundation. She is currently a visiting scientist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria. Her research focuses on emerging issues related to the productivity and well-being of smallholder farmers within dynamic and transforming food markets in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as poorly functioning markets in the region.
Liverpool-Tasie is particularly interested in how the transformation of food systems in Africa is creating livelihood opportunities for Africans along food supply chains. She serves on the Advisory Board for International Agricultural and Food Development and is the principal
