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Improving livestock to fight poverty and empower women

Doreen Anene works to boost the quality of hens’ eggs and inspire girls to study science.
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Doreen Anene in her lab conducting egg analysis at University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus

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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Nature 607, 204 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01831-8

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