Amonkurumwa

=Personal Information= Agnes Munde Oywaya Nkurumwa is a Kenyan national, who currently lives and works in Kenya. =Occupation= She is a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Education and Extension, Egerton University, Kenya.

Duties
=Educational Background=
 * She lectures in the fields of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology.
 * She also coordinates student educational visits and is involved in assessment of field attachment and teaching practice programmes.
 * She is also the Departmental Examinantions co-ordinator, handling examination issues for undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has held the position for more than seven years.
 * She is also involved in academic advising of students.
 * She has a PhD in Agricultural extension, and a Masters degree in the same field obtained from Egerton University.
 * She also has a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Education and Extension.
 * She attended Alliance Girls High School in Kikuyu Kenya, for her secondary school education.

=Research Interests=
 * 1) Improvement of agricultural productivity of small scale farmers, especially women and marginalized groups along the value chain through effective technology diffusion and adoption.
 * 2) Working with rural women and marginalized groups to empower them to improve their livelihoods and household food security through improved adoption of agricultural innovations.
 * 3) Rural agricultural innovations and socio-cultural issues that affect agricultural and rural development.
 * 4) Gender in agriculture

=Experience=
 * 1) she has over ten years experience as a lecturer at University level
 * 2) She is a qualified graduate teacher in Agriculture and Biology, with good teaching skills.
 * 3) She has been involved in several committees at the University, organizing for workshops and seminars and has also served as a course administrator for a three weeks international course on Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
 * 4) She once served as a consultant enumerator in a rapid evaluative analysis exercise for Heifer International (Kenya).

=Future Hopes= =Contacts= She can be reached at Department of Agricultural Education and Extension, Egerton University, P.O. Box 536, Egerton, Kenya; Tel: +254-721-220-363; email: aonkurumwa@yahoo.com.
 * 1) She would like to increase her global exposure and make greater contribution through collaborative research and publishing in her areas of interest.
 * 2) She hopes to work more closely with rural people and agricultural extension service providers to improve agricultural productivity and increase food security.

= Other Links=
 * Agnes Munde Oywaya Nkurumwa Bio Data
 * Agnes Curriculum Vitae