By Eddah Waithaka Health leaders, policymakers, and youth activists are uniting to confront Africa’s youth suicide crisis, launching a powerful new initiative that treats prevention as a fundamental social responsibility. The Youth Suicide Prevention Forum, hosted by Aga Khan University’s Brain and Mind Institute in collaboration with the Science for Africa Foundation, directly challenges the […]
By Eddah Waithaka Dr. Takemore Chagomoka lifts a jar filled with wriggling black soldier fly larvae. To the untrained eye, it may look like nothing more than insects. To him, and to thousands of farmers across Kenya, it represents the future of science research that doesn’t end with a published paper, but begins there. “A […]
By Eddah Waithaka A convoluted 23-step registration process and prohibitive costs are strangling Kenya’s adoption of safer, eco-friendly biopesticides, leaving farmers dependent on harsh synthetic chemicals, a high-level government analysis has concluded. The stark findings, revealed by a technical government working group, identify a critical paradox. Kenya has the legal framework for a biopesticide boom, […]
