Caroline Kawira

Caroline is a facilitator at glocolearning and a Ph.D. researcher in Food Science and Technology at the University of Nairobi (Kenya, Uganda). For her PhD, she is working on the topic of household nutritional resilience against climate variability in the Karamoja border region of Kenya and Uganda.

She completed her Master’s degree in Nutrition and rural development at Ghent University (Belgium, Kenya) and her Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and technology at University of Nairobi (Kenya). Her research focused on assessing the impacts of restorative land transformations (agroforestry and enclosures) on household nutrition in West Pokot, Kenya. Moreover, she has also studied in several leading institutions in Europe including Wageningen University, Vlerick Business School, and Humboldt University of Berlin among others.

Her interests lie around sustainable food environments, co-learning and participatory methods, nutrition resilience, climate adaptation etc. She has many years of experience working on the ground in the Global South with farmers, innovators, start-ups SMEs, research agencies, government agencies, community organisations and non-profits (both local and international) to address various issues of agriculture, environment and diets. She seeks to use the deep insights and knowledge of systems thinking within the multidisciplinary research of food systems to catalyse more equitable health and agri-food system transformation for the greater wellbeing of our global society.