Session: Simon Ewing will share on empowering women farmers with agricultural technology hubs.
Speaker: Simon Ewing is a missionary serving with Emmanuel International UK in Mwanza, Tanzania. A mechanical engineer by training, Simon is currently running an innovation trial funded by Fund for Innovation and Transformation (FIT) and GAC. This trial gives subsistence farmers the opportunity to try appropriate technologies through a local tool library. In their six years in Tanzania, Simon and his family have spent much of their time serving the local churches with holistic community development projects in the areas of sanitation, nutrition, and organic conservation agriculture. Simon enjoys experimenting with his small backyard aquaponics system in his spare time.