Bojosi Antonette Ncube

2023 Fellow from Botswana

Bojosi Antonette Ncube has more than seven years of experience in agriculture and food security. Antonette is the founder of Temo-Thuo Setho (Agriculture for Humanity), a civil society organization in northeastern Botswana. She is a senior agronomist in Botswana's largest public-private agricultural entity and works with producers and smallholder farmers to promote crop diversification. She supports intergovernmental institutions and the private sector in designing and developing strategies and implementing agricultural improvement programs. Antonette has served as a climate change and sustainability expert in the African Union'European Union Youth Hub. She has also been a delegate with the European Union Commission to the 66th session of the United Nations for the Commission on the Status of Women in which she lobbied and advocated for advances to climate action. She also spoke on behalf of the 95 member states on eliminating violence against women and girls, and she is pursuing the use of agriculture as a tool to build communities and tackle gender-based violence. After completing the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Antonette plans to scale Temo-Thuo Setho to other regions of Botswana and to capacitate girls and women in rural farming communities on food security and sustainable agriculture.

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