 Hi, my name is Alice Karanja. I'm a postdoctoral research fellow at Wauda Grove Forestry, ICRAF, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. My work at ICRAF primarily focuses on understanding the role of agricultural biodiversity both well and cultivated on food security, nutrition and livelihood resilience. I mostly work with colleagues from the NutriScapes partnership platform that looks at how landscapes and landscape restoration can be done in such a way that we improve nutrition and dietary diversity, particularly for women and children. As an early career researcher and particularly as a young woman, there are challenges that we face in research. In particular, the issue of funding, we find that the grants mostly are not available in such a way that they can be able to support young scientists like myself. Therefore, what we need is an ambling environment that can support us in terms of policy. We need the tools, we need the mechanisms to be able to voice out our ideas and carry out our research in a way that it can influence policy.