Grace Mukarusagara
Program Consultant
Kigali, Rwanda
Grace Mukarusagara joined the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute in December 2018 as an irrigation consultant in Rwanda working on evaluating sustainable irrigation business models for smallholder farmers. Prior to joining DWFI, she supervised a large government-funded irrigation project and later worked as an irrigation engineer employed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources and as an irrigation engineer and farm manager working for the Clinton Development Initiative in Rwanda. As a native of Rwanda, Grace is passionate about helping smallholder farmers in her country improve agricultural practices to increase productivity and profitability.
Grace received her bachelor’s degree in soil and water management from the Higher Institute of Agriculture and Animal Resources (University of Rwanda) where her research evaluated the performance of drip irrigation in greenhouses.