Blog post by Angeline Munzara

About the author :

Angeline Munzara is the director of Advocacy and Program Management, Resilience and Livelihoods of World Vision International. She is a member of the Food for Life strategy group of the WCC's Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance. Before joining World Vision in April 2011, she was the food campaigns coordinator of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance and the regional policy and advocacy manager for Community Technology Development Trust.

A lawyer from Zimbabwe but based in South Africa, fellowshipping at Kingsway International Christian Center (KICC), Angeline Munzara has more than 11 years' experience in the fields of seed systems, sustainable agriculture, food security, food safety, intellectual property rights, biodiversity conservation, environment/natural resource management, climate change, and sustainable development.

She has authored a number of policy papers on food security and sustainable agriculture, including: "Biopiracy of Local Seed Varieties: Implications of Intellectual Property Rights in Southern Africa", Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, 2010. She has served in numerous leadership roles including being a board member and treasurer of the Women and Law in Southern Africa-Zimbabwe (WILSA); Former board chair for Heal the Wounds Christian Center (HWCC) she is currently representing the Africa region as a standing member of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Compliance Committee (2013-2017) and founder of the Stewardship Initiatives Trust (SIT).