Rutgers Professor helping women shadehouse farmers

Professor Robin Brumfield

For all her considerable academic accolades, Rutgers University Professor Robin Brumfield still regards herself as a farmer with a mission to do what she can to help maximize the production of healthy food.

Just over a week ago she arrived in Guyana on her second visit as a guest of the Partners of the Americas’ Farmer to Farmer programme and during her all too brief visit here she will he helping women who are involved in the Farmer to Farmer Shadehouse Project to improve their capacity to run their farming operations as businesses.