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Number 93 on the 2025 list
Mary Abukutsa-Onyango is a professor of horticulture from Kenya, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for sharing the Africa Food Prize for putting African indigenous vegetables back on the plate.
Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango shared the US$100,000 2025 Africa Food Prize, announced in Dakar on 3 September 2025, for more than three decades of research putting African indigenous vegetables such as amaranth, spider plant and African nightshade back on the plate to fight malnutrition. She leads a university consortium scaling up jute mallow and African nightshade in Kiambu and Kakamega counties.