Mary Njenga
Bioenergy Research Scientist
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Mary Njenga is a Bioenergy Research Scientist at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). She holds a PhD in Management of Agroecosystems and the Environment from the University of Nairobi. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi, and she contributes to the Rural–Urban Linkages research theme under the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). Mary’s interest is on sustainable and efficient biomass energy production and use systems, and their connections to environmental management, including climate change, livelihoods and rural-urban linkages. She is also greatly interested in natural resource management in urban and rural settings, urban agriculture and adaptive technology development and transfer, including gender integration and co-learning through transdisciplinary approaches. Before joining ICRAF, Mary worked for ‘Urban Harvest’, a systemwide initiative of the CGIAR on urban agriculture convened by the International Potato Centre (CIP); she also served as the gender focal point in the region. Prior to joining CIP, she worked on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the Kenyan drylands with various organizations, like the Semi-Arid Rural Development Programme of SNV, the Natural Resource Monitoring, Modelling and Management (NRM) unit of the Laikipia Research Programme (LRP), currently CENTRAD and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Mary has over 100 authored and co-authored publications, over half in peerreviewed books and journals.