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About Mercy

Mercy Fakude is a Masters (MSc) student in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in the National University of Ireland Galway for the year 2017/2018. She holds a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Science (Crop Science) obtained from the North-West University in South Africa. She is interested in promoting sustainable agricultural productivity, global food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Mercy's Masters research project will be conducted in collaboration between NUI Galway-CCAFS and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The research work will focus on targeting new climate-resilient feeds and forages in the smallholder mixed farming systems of East Africa. Tools such as ArcGIS and R software will be used to produce maps which show vulnerable areas. In this study, vulnerable areas are areas where feed and forage scarcity constrain livestock productivity.