Two students,Jael Aching, an 18-year-old from Loresho Secondary School and Blessed Kyalo a 15-year-old student from AIC Tangu School have been selected to represent Kenya in the World Food Prize (WFP) Global Youth Institute (GYI) conference in the USA, scheduled for October 21-23, 2025.
They emerged winners after their essays were ranked the best out of the 69 selected papers presented at a national conference organized and hosted by the Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO).
The essays presented challenges and solutions to tackle global food insecurity and were judged by 18 eminent scientists.
Aching’s essay was about Bosnia and Herzegovina malnutrition and how armed conflict has affected the country’s agricultural production.
Kyallo’s paper focused on enhancing food security and healthy diets in Ethiopia through water harvesting and cover crops.
Aching said the paper talked of an integrated nutrition and agriculture initiative that can come up with the community nutrition hub, which offers counseling and social classes.
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“The paper also came up with the home gardening programme that offered seed kits, tools and training to smallholder farmers, as well as coming up with the school feeding programme that offered nutritious meals to the community and all schools,” she said.
Kyallo’s research was informed by the lack of reliable rainfall in Ethiopia and that the best solution for them would be addressing food insecurity by having a sustainable water harvesting system.
KALRO Children Science Centre Kenya director Kenneth Monjero said the World Food Prize Foundation programme has opened various youth institutes across the world to engage high school students in awareness of food security, issues of climate change, and also awareness of climate-smart technologies or innovations that address this food security.
Moniero noted that this year they engaged over 130 schools from both private and public across the country and held teachers’s workshops to educate students on research and help them come up with best innovations.
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The GYI conference centers on innovative efforts of young leaders to tackle global food security challenges. Student delegates selected from Youth Institutes share key findings and recommendations from their research with international experts and their peers in roundtable discussions.
Students have also the opportunity to connect with other global leaders to discuss challenges, share ideas, and develop solutions for a more sustainable and food-secure world.
By Obegi Malack
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