I am a kenyan national aged 33 years old. I come from a very humble family background in the rural parts of my country kenya. I am the sixth born in a family of 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls. My parents are all alive but at their very old age and never had a profession. I am the only child from the family who managed to complete high school education, go to the university and pursue a degree. I also completed a postgraduate degree here in kenya, all on burseries and government loans. I have been the only bread winner for the whole family which has now grown to about 28. All through my life, i have dedicated all my earnings to supporting my parents and siblings and in food and clothing because we only own 3 acres of land which is not enough for food production. In my life, having stared poverty in the face for the rest of my life, i have dedicated most of it serving the hungry, poor and rural based communities. I have mostly worked with development organisations that fund rural based development projects inclusing UNDP, JICA and ministry of agriculture and rural development. I have assisted many groups and rural based organisations to come up with community based action plans for development purposes. However limited my contribution has been, it has had positive impact. At the moment, i am not employed and yet i have to continue serving my course for humanity. Recently, i applied for a PhD course in Rural and International Development at the Reading University in the UK and was selected on merit to undertake the degree but with a condition that i MUST get financial resources for the same. I have the admission letter with me and all the conditions. I possess a BSc. in Agricultural Economics and an MSc. in Agricultural Economics. I have over 9 years experience working with development organisations in Africa. My research proposal is very interesting and seeks to eliminate the hunger problem in africa through adoption of agricultural biotechnology policies by the various sub saharan governments whose populations are currently facing persistent hunger, death and mulnutrition. More that 200 million people in the region face hunger because of government misinformation and lack of a coordinated policy programme that can ensure that the region turns its fortunes around and feed its starving population. My proposal was motivated by the persistent hunger problems that i have personally experienced in our family, the village, the country and the region. My proposal was even recommended by key african scientists and institutions as vital for food security solutions. It is interesting to let you know that despite the importance of this proposal and the key research output that it would have on over 250 million people in africa, ALL key agricultural and related funding organisations that champion food security in africa have NOT even considered replying to my mails asking for help to fund this important studies! I am disappointed because it is hypocritical for these organisations to purpot to champion a strategy towards poverty alleviation and yet fail to listen to my plea and cry for help for the same course. My proposed university of research has given me a chance to raise funds before i can resume these key research studies and i have toiled on end combing the internet for help but in vain. I just wonder where justice is in this world when a potential individual who wants to give solutions to a global problem cannot be assisted to realise this important role by organisations that have amassed resources in the same. I now kindly request an individual or family of good faith and heart to turn to my plea and help me fund these research studies in the UK which will have key continental implications for africa. I request to be assisted to pay for my tuition and living costs in the UK for three years. I am even willing to let all the key research findings be adopted by the individual funding person, organisation or family as their own output. All i want to do is bring to an end the plight of hungry families in africa to an end through widely accepted research findings that will be adopted easily and with less constraints. Please help me in this endevour. I have looked around myself to see what i can use to fundsraise, but all i have is my faith, consciousness, willingness to offer technical solutions and my intellect. I dont have the capacity to raise even a single cent, but i have the capacity to transform lives and livelihoods. I dont have the capacity to access the huge multi billion dollar resources given for unending femine relief operations in africa, but i have the capacity to stop the dependency on aid by many african households. I want to offer a "fishing net" to rural households to be able to fend for themselves, not a "daily fish" which they have to beg from tired donors and tax payers all over the world. I have a CV profile, work experience profile and my research proposal that was accepted at Reading University, UK. If you are willing to come to my AID with a view to helping me realise the continental vision of sustainable food security solutions for Africa, then please, contact me for details. My reseach idea is estimated to start having an impact from my second year of study at the university and thereafter, to be sustainable in transforming lives and livelihoods long after i am gone as an individual. Please help me realise the rulal livelihood dream, help me to help transform the african livelihoods, help me to help transform humanity fortunes and human development. Help me to realise an important cardinal objective in my life, for a poor continent seeking redemption. My worst experience will be to die and be buried with an idea that would have remained alive, long after i am dead, but vibrating positively in my soul that will never die with the realisation that i helped change lives on a continent that has only known bleakness, hopelessness, misery and backwardness. I however remain optimistic that there is a light at the end of the tunnel because i know that out there, there is someone with a christened golden heart who will definitely step out and rescue my idea from dying in vain. Felix

To overcome poverty and hunger, many developing countries will need to achieve faster and more sustained pro-poor economic growth. Good governance plays an essential role in reaching these goals. To navigate the difficult choices among policy and investment alternatives and governance reform options, policymakers and stakeholders need a holistic and dynamic approach, in which the interaction of policies is understood and pro-poor strategies that encompass farmers’ response to new knowledge and technologies are developed and implemented.

Research and technology alone will not drive agricultural growth. The full and beneficial effects of agricultural research and technological change will materialize only if government policies are conducive to and supportive of poverty alleviation and sustainable management of natural resources.

Modern agricultural biotechnology – including, but not limited to, genetic engineering and the breeding of transgenic crops – offers great potential as an instrument for achieving food security for all in sub Saharan Africa where about 200 million people are chronically hungry.

Despite the level of agricultural technological advancement in the world’s agricultural biotechnology arena over the past decade, sub Saharan countries farmers’ systems for exchanging planting material have not been better understood and appropriate public policy diffusion strategies have therefore not been formulated. Results from a significant number of research studies indicate that in formulating pro-poor development strategies, many governments in sub Saharan Africa have not given high priority to small farmers, in other words, to broad-based agricultural development. Many developing country policy makers have looked at the large commercial farmers in the west as a “replicable trait”, yet small farmers are the keystone of a pro-poor development strategy for sub Saharan Africa. A significant proportion of the population in sub Saharan Africa still wallows in abject poverty, threatened by hunger and food insecurity as a result of poorly focused, wrongly targeted and acutely inaccurate rural development policies.

Research is therefore needed to build the understanding of the big picture influencing agricultural policy design and implementation including appropriate strategies for delivering agricultural biotechnology to the rural poor. This is one of the best ways forward for alleviating the social problems of food insecurity and poverty ravaging across sub Saharan Africa.

"As a Development Economist concerned with the plight of the African population, i am preparing this grounds breaking research that will revolutionise the agricultural production systems in the continent thus promoting sustainable livelihoods, by increasing rural household food security and incomes."

I am a development economist who is advocating for a lasting and sustainable solution to Africa perennial problem of food insecurity, hunger and mulnutrition. I seek to reverse the prevailing rural poverty situation in Sub Saharan Africa through advocacy for policy change and adoption of new food security proof measures that will stand the test of time. Please read more about my endevours in my aidmate page.

I am very delighted to have been given an opportunity for free by aidpage to seek for international assistence towards furthering the course for African lives and livelihoods. Aidpage plays a key role in bringing to light existing problems and potential solutions for the same. I am grateful to share my plight with the rest of the world, and i am grateful towards aidpage for their free assistence. 

I am very delighted to have been given an opportunity for free by aidpage to seek for international assistence towards furthering the course for African lives and livelihoods. Aidpage plays a key role in bringing to light existing problems and potential solutions for the same. I am grateful to share my plight with the rest of the world, and i am grateful towards aidpage for their free assistence.