Esther Ngumbi

Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the Department of Entomology and African American Studies

About the author

Ngumbi is also a senior Food Security Fellow with New Voices, the Aspen Institute.

We cannot continue to allow millions to go hungry while tonnes of perfectly good food end up in landfills every year.

Investing in localised initiatives to mitigate drought can help the continent to break the cyclic nature of disasters.