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Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes.

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Innovation Policy and Scaling

Penina Muoki

Program Manager

Bio

Penina Muoki is a Program Manager in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit with over 20 years of work experience in nutrition-sensitive agriculture projects that apply a market-led value chain approach. Since 2019, she has been working for HarvestPlus managing projects that promote biofortified high iron beans and pro-vitamin A maize and orange sweet potato in Kenya and Tanzania. She has delivered agricultural and nutrition projects through commercial pathways and school feeding program pathways, as well as a social model aiming to improve infant and maternal nutrition, working through synergistic public and private partnerships.

Before joining HarvestPlus, Penina worked with the Ministry of Agriculture-Kenya, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-Mozambique and Malawi, and the International Potato Center-Kenya. She holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Post-harvest Technology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, and a PhD in Food Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Innovation Policy and Scaling