Blessing Mhlanga is a cropping systems agronomist working under the Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) program to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa through adaptation of innovative cropping systems. He obtained his PhD from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy in 2022. He joined CIMMYT as an intern in 2009 and has previously served as a consultant under different CIMMYT projects since 2016.
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