CARP+ Students Profiles

Amani Al-Tayyeb Al-Awad, a Sudanese national, graduated from the University of Gezira. She obtained a higher bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and Resources in 2004 and works as an agricultural engineer in the General Administration of Agriculture and Livestock and is currently in the second year of the RUFORM CARD grant and continues to obtain a master’s degree in crop science from Al Salam University (Sudan) with a major focus on the impact of bees on Production of orange trees.
Amani worked as a supervisor for the extension program in the IFAD project (Sudan), and worked on projects of the Zakat Diwan in the production of maize crop in the agricultural survey program in the state of South Kordofan and the state of North Kordofan (Sudan) and worked as a decision in the Department of Rainfed Agriculture. Her vision is that development is important to her as an agricultural engineer and helps provide solutions to many problems, aided by her long experience in the agricultural field.

Marius Affonfere was born in January 1993 and raised in Savalou district (Republic of Benin). In 2011, He obtained his Entry Level degree and he was granted a national scholarship to attend his Bachelor (BSc) training at the School of Sciences and Techniques for Preservation and Processing of Agricultural Products, National University of Agriculture (ESTCTPA/UNA) in Benin and graduated in March 2015. 

After his bachelor degree, he was highly interested to pursue his carrier in Food Sciences, which brings him to become a junior research assistant in the Laboratory of Food Sciences/Faculty of Agronomy Sciences (FSA) in the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC/Benin). With that respect, he has worked on different food science related projects. In December 2015, he was delighted to be granted a RUFORUM scholarship to pursue his Master (MSc) studies under the Graduate Research Grant (RU 2015 GRG 125) entitled “food to food fortification with baobab fruit pulp and morning leaf powder as a pathway to improve food and nutrition security of women and children in Benin”. In January 2018, he obtained his Master degree in Agricultural, Food Science and Technologies at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (FSA)/University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC). In February 2018, he was awarded a six months RUFORUM Community-Based Field Attachment Program Award (CFAPA) to scale-out and disseminate his MSc thesis research findings. His CFAPA topic is entitled “Promotion of the consumption of sorghum porridge dual fortified with moringa leaf powder and baobab fruit pulp among under-five-years old children in rural Benin”. Based on the recommendation arising from his CFAPA implementation, he was strongly motivated to pursue a PhD thesis on the potential use of baobab fruit pulp to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies among local population in Benin. His PhD thesis entitled «Utilization of baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) and other local resources to alleviate micronutrients deficiencies among under five years old children in Benin» is carrying out under BAOCHAIN project.

Ndenatjike Kauzera is a Namibian, who graduated from the university of Namibia (UNAM) for a higher diploma in agriculture (2017). Current enrolled in his final year of study at UNAM for a degree in Animal Science (Honours) and is a BSc beneficiary for the RUFORUM scholarships to evaluate the effect of treatment with wood ash, biochar and PEG on the nutritive value of bush feed with special focus on tannin contents, feed intake and digestibility at University of Namibia. Ndenatjike has been part of the bush to feed program (2019), working with Ms de La Puerta Fernandez. He has furthermore taken part in the feedlot challenge(2019). He has a passion for agriculture and a drive for knowledge that will be his greatest asset in his research and academic career