Mercy Mwangi Email & Phone Number

Nairobi, Kenya

• Deliver high quality, written or recorded agronomy tips, content strategy & agronomy calendar schedules including Land preparation, seed preparation, fertilizer application, weeding practice, tool preparation, weather.
• Conduct tests of Content with target market to better structure content shared.
• Collaborate with agronomists in multiple countries to create locally relevant written or recorded agronomy tips, and agronomy calendar research according to country, province, district level seasons and stages of crop.
• Collaborate with Team experts in conducting research and writing crop protocols, field staff and farmer training content and materials.
• Collaborate with translators in multiple countries to ensure content is consumable by the target audience.
• Improve agronomy content structure for SMS, USSD, IVR, RADIO, POSTERS, CALL CENTER among others to encourage uptake by small-holder farmers especially women.

Ruiru, Kenya

• ATDC is a national station under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries focused on capacity building, promotion, and adoption of validated agricultural technologies used in value addition and crop.
• Interviewing farmers and farmer cooperatives and identifying knowledge gaps in post-harvest processing.
• Conducting orientation classes for farmer groups focusing on post-harvest processes and agro-machinery.
• Assisting farmer groups in identifying the most appropriate value addition options based on their investment capital, skills, and the market.
• Providing agro-machinery services, i.e., land preparation, weeding.
• Working in tandem with other government agencies and NGOs in agricultural product development, i.e., Kenya Climate Innovation Centre (KCIC)

Nairobi, Kenya

• KALRO is the leading Agricultural Research Institution in Kenya. My role involved assisting the Irrigation, Drainage, and Management of Problem Soils section in its mandate in catalyzing water resource management. With.
• Conducting research on a low-cost irrigation scheduling tool for smallholder farmers.
• Managing production processes in the organization’s farm: tillage, fertilization, weeding, and market linkage.
• Providing research assistance to senior researchers when need be.
• Providing lab assistance at the soil physics laboratory particularly in; soil moisture content, texture, bulk density, particle density, plasticity, and hydraulic conductivity.
• Collaborating with senior researchers to write session proposals on water use efficiency policy.Achievements:

Ruiru, Kenya

• Brookside Dairy Ltd is the largest milk processor in East and Central Africa. Here, I led and developed water management efforts.Key Contributions:
• Coordinating the collection, weighing, compilation, and logging of daily solid waste input from various processing units within the plant.
• Engaging with suppliers of packing materials and developing materials profiles.
• Identifying ex-factory plastic leakage by developing internal waste flow maps.
• Spearheading weekly cleanups at the factory waste yard and creating awareness of the 5S principle.Achievements:
• Justified a plastic take-back scheme by quantifying post-consumer waste generated between 2015 and 2018.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Ojay Greene Ltd is a social enterprise that offers training, advisory services, and market linkage to smallholder farming communities. My role was focused on improving agricultural production and exploring avenues for.
• Developing crop production plans at the beginning of every planting cycle, detailing activities from land preparation to harvesting and accompanying resources.
• Performing thorough market surveys: market size calculation, target market analysis, market demand, SWOT analysis, etc.
• Maintaining farmer relationships by facilitating farmer field days.
• Facilitating farmer field schools and capacity-building exercises on Good Agricultural Practices.Achievements:
• Identified peak market demand for indigenous green leafy vegetables in urban supermarkets in Nairobi.

Kasarani, Kenya

Hands on experience in engineering fabrication and fitting, powder welding and arc welding, general machine jobs- lathe work, milling, drilling and grinding, general plant and equipment maintenance.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, Second Class Honour: Upper Division

Activities and Societies: Member of Africa Youth Leadership Forum - JKUAT Chapter Member of Society of Biosystems and Environmental.

Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education, A-

Activities and Societies: Member of Journalism Club (2010-2012) Vice President of Science Congress Club (2011- 2012)