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Elizabeth Nyamayaro

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Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Elizabeth Nyamayaro is an award-winning humanitarian and special adviser for the United Nations World Food Programme. Born in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth has worked at the forefront of global development for over two decades improving the lives of underserved populations and has held leadership roles at the World Bank, World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and UN Women. Elizabeth is a political scientist by training and holds a MSc in politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and leadership education from the Harvard Business School.

USAid has promoted policies that prioritise large-scale agribusiness and monoculture farming, often at the expense of local food sovereignty and traditional farming methods. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
COP26

Food is not a commodity, it’s a fundamental right

We need collective action to reach a zero-hunger world

  • Elizabeth Nyamayaro
4 min read
Many questions: Elizabeth Nyamayaro says her curiosity led her to write a book that challenges incorrect views of Africa and its people by the West. Photo: Behind the Cause
ACTIVISTS

The ‘girl from Africa’ who is taking ubuntu to the world

Elizabeth Nyamayaro’s new book argues that the philosophy from Africa can change the way the West interacts with the continent it colonised, stereotypes and continues to…

  • Elizabeth Nyamayaro
8 min read