Improving livestock to fight poverty and empower women

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Doreen Anene is an animal scientist at the University of Nottingham, UK, founder of the STEM Belle and winner of the 2019 Nature Research Innovating Women in Science award. Credit: Adam Wiseman for Nature

Most livestock farmers in developing countries live in poverty. Women are often heavily disadvantaged because they don't have the same access to land, credit and training as men. Seeing these things while growing up in Zaria, Nigeria, led me to study agriculture and animal sciences.

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