Tanzania, March 30 -- Dar es Salaam. For Pendo Bigambo, agriculture has never been only about what happens in the field.

It is about what happens after harvest-where food security is protected or lost, where incomes are secured or reduced and where women's invisible labour finally has the chance to be recognised.

For more than two decades, she has worked quietly but consistently behind national agricultural systems, helping shape policies, training programmes and standards that reduce post-harvest losses and improve food safety across Tanzania.

Yet beyond the technical achievements, her deeper contribution lies in ensuring women farmers, who carry much of the responsibility for post-harvest handling, are not left behind in the country'...