Isaiah Esipisu writes:
Three elderly women sit under a mango tree in Musiega village in Vihiga County chatting animatedly.
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They are members of a women group, which consists of 22 widows, and on this day, they have come together to exchange traditional vegetable seeds.
Some grow African black nightshade (lisutsa/managu), others jute mallow (mrenda) or slender leaf (mitoo) and while the rest pumpkins.
Those who grow managu exchange their farm-saved seeds with those who grow pumpkins and vice versa.
The group is one among 1,211 from western Kenya, which are working with Prof Ruth Oniang’o, the co-winner of the 2017 coveted Africa Food Prize.
Prof Oniang’o co-won the award with Maïmouna Sidibe Coulibaly, a business woman from Mali...[more]
