Schreyer Honors College student Kelli Herr, a junior  majoring in community, environment and development, will present “Zambian Indigenous Vegetables: Knowledge in the Mind but not the Market” at noon, on Thursday, Oct. 29, in Foster Auditorium. Herr is a 2015 recipient of the Whiting Indigenous Knowledge Student Research Awards.

After joining the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program last spring, Herr began working on a food security venture geared toward implementing greenhouses in Zambia. She researched what was currently being grown, sold and consumed in Zambia, with the goal of identifying the indigenous vegetables and their place in the local market economy. Herr will be introduced by Khanjan Mehta, HESE program director.

Herr holding a wild cucumber that she found during her research. — image provided by presenter

This presentation is part of an ongoing seminar series on indigenous knowledge co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Interinstitutional Consortium on Indigenous Knowledge. For more information, see http://icik.psu.edu. If you anticipate needing accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, contact Helen Sheehy, hms2@psu.edu/ 814-863-1347 in advance of your visit.