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[1] Dr. Hilda Chia Eta [Nigeria] is a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, University of Calabar, Nigeria. She is currently the chairman, Departmental Postgraduate Committee and member of the departmental quality assurance team. Dr. Eta has authored and co-authored several articles in learned journals especially in the area of environmental extension and rural development. She has also participated in local and international conferences. She is particularly interested in the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods and the dissemination and adoption of climate smart practices aimed at reducing adverse effects caused by climate change.
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Pesticide use, management practices and perceived effects on the health of cocoa farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria
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[2] Dr. Caresma Chuwa [Tanzania] is a Food Scientist Expert employed by the Government of Tanzania at Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute Ukiriguru under the Ministry of Agriculture. She is working as a Senior Research Officer in the crops department. She has 15 years of experience in research in value addition and product diversification, recipe formulations and standardization, low cost complementary food formulations to combat malnutrition in infants and children, she has participated in various research activities as Principal investigator and Collaborator. She is the author and co-author of over 25 peer-reviewed research publications in international journals in the area of Food and Nutrition.
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Edible grasshoppers (Ruspolia differens) as alternative source of protein from insects to combat malnutrition
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[3] Janice Dwomoh Abraham [Ghana] is a biologist with research interests in nutrition and hidden hunger, food and water quality, gender issues in nutrition, genetics, molecular biology, biodiversity and population ecology. Her research activities are towards revealing the nutritional value of food substances and how they could be utilized for the good of humanity. Ultimately, she aims to contribute to food security through research. Aside her research activities, she lectures and mentor students in Biology. She holds PhD and MPhil degrees in Botany from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a BSc (Hons.) degree in Biology from the same university.
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Gender-based planning of meals at the household level in Ghana
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[4] Emmanuel Boamah Duku [Ghana] is a research scientist with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute (PGRRI) at Bunso in the Eastern Region of Ghana for the past decade. He is a PhD candidate at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. Stored Product Entomology is his area of specialization. He has previously worked on Integrated Management of cabbage and garden egg insect pests on farmers' fields during the World Bank-West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP- Phase II Projects) in three districts of the Volta Region of Ghana.
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Susceptibility of pro-Vitamin A biofortified maize genotypes to Sitophilus zeamais (Mots) in Ghana
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[5] Dr Jane Onuabuchi Munonye [Nigeria] is an Agricultural Economist with a specialty in Farm management, and has experience in teaching, research, and community service. Dr. Munonye holds a B. Agric Tech, masters and PhD degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Technology, Owerri and Imo State University, Owerri, respectively. She went further to obtain a Post Baccalaureate Diploma from University of Manitoba, Canada. She has authored and co-authored many scholarly articles in high impact journals. She frequently undergoes professional development to enhance her teaching and research skills. She is currently with the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
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The impact of food security and poverty status on rural household farmers in Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
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[6] Anjellah Reddy [South Africa] is a lecturer in the Dept of Food and Nutrition and Consumer Science at Durban University of Technology in South Africa. Her area of research is healthy food solutions, indigenous plant-based foods, recipe development, and food styling aesthetics.
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Barriers and facilitators of brown rice consumption among staff at Durban University of Technology, South Africa
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[7] Mr Minentle Lwando Mnukwa [South Africa] holds a master Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of Fort Hare. He is currently a contract-lecturer in Agribusiness, at the University of Zululand. Mr Mnukwa’s research interests and community-related service are linked to food security, dietary diversity, indigenous knowledge-based farm practices, rural development & climate change, and several issues affecting smallholder farmers and rural women of South Africa. Mr Mnukwa has published and continues to publish manuscripts in both international and locally accredited journals in the discipline of Agricultural Economics. For self-development and professional growth, he continuously attends workshops, conferences & symposiums.
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Profitability and market performance of smallholder potato enterprises in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
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[8] Ms. Prossy Kyomugisha [Uganda] is a graduate of Makerere University, Uganda holding an MSc in Crop Science and Bsc in agriculture. She is currently a PhD candidate pursuing a PhD in plant breeding and biotechnology in the same University. Her research interests are in crop sciences majorly application of tissue culture in biotechnology and plant breeding. Ms. Kyomugisha has participated mostly in the production of disease-free planting materials of banana under a private company and potato with the national potato program.
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Response of common bean genotypes to prevalent Pseudocercospora griseola races causing angular leaf spot in Uganda
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[9] Dr. Zenebe Worku Woldeyes [Ethiopia] is Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Rural Innovation (ARI) in the Faculty of Environment, Gender and Development studies, College of Agriculture, Hawassa University of Ethiopia. Holds a PhD in Agricultural and Rural Innovation (ARI) from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, MSc in Management of Agro-Ecological Knowledge and Social Change (MAKS) from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a BSc in Agricultural Extension from Haremaya University Ethiopia. He has long experience as practitioner starting from frontline extension worker to the regional bureau head for cooperatives development. Currently he is an academician, and has an active engagement in teaching, research and community service tasks.
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Participation and equity shareholding benefits among wheat farmers’ multipurpose cooperatives in Southern Ethiopia
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[10] Desire Dushimimana [Rwanda] is an agricultural economist with experience in agribusiness. Mr. Dushimimana holds a MSc in Agribusiness from the University of Rwanda. He also holds a BSc in agricultural economics and agribusiness from the National University of Rwanda. Dushimimana is an agribusiness manager at Partners In Health/ Inshuti Mu Buzima in Rwanda, a visiting lecturer at the University of Lay Adventists of Kigali and an agribusiness consultant at Socioeconomic Institute for Advanced Studies (SIAS), a research institute in Kigali, Rwanda. His research of interest includes economics of grains, grain food systems, food security, farm and agribusiness management, poverty, health and livelihoods.
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Assessment of maize production systems during the Covid-19 pandemic in Rwanda: Case study of Kigali City Region
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[11] Ufedo Monday Shaibu [Nigeria] is an academic in the field of agricultural economics, currently serving as a PASET-RSIF scholar in Agribusiness at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana. He holds a first degree in General Agriculture and has pursued post-graduate degrees in Agricultural Economics. Shaibu is also involved in teaching as a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Kogi State University Anyigba, Nigeria. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Shaibu was also a visiting scholar at the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, under the Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project.
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Econometric modeling of the nexus of agricultural policy and food security in Nigeria: A dummy variable regression approach
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[12] Veronica Makuvaro [Zimbabwe] holds a PhD in Agricultural Meteorology. She is a senior lecturer and current head of the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the Midlands State University (MSU) in Zimbabwe. Before joining the MSU, she served in the Ministry of Agriculture as Agronomist, agro-meteorologist and head of the National Early Warning Unit for food security. She has published several papers in reputable journals. Her research areas of interest include agronomy, agroclimatology and smallholder agriculture. She has provided consultancy services in resilience building programmes spearheaded by international organizations such as CARE Zimbabwe and ICRISAT, under the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund.
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Effects of Covid-19 on urban and peri-urban farmers in Central Zimbabwe
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[13] Doris Kanvenaa Puozaa [Ghana] (Ph.D.) is the Lead of the Seed Research Unit of CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana. She works with her team to improve the seed systems of various crops, develop technologies for seed quality management, evaluate elite breeding lines to select genotypes with superior seed quality traits, build capacities of seed sector actors, and promote market-preferred varieties through partnerships. She has spent over 15 years, contributing to sustainable food systems using inclusive tools through positions at the West Africa Council for Agricultural Research and Development, Senegal, CSIR-Crops Research Institute, and the Plant Protection, and Regulatory Services Directorate, Ghana.
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Quality of seed lots of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] genotypes produced in a guinea savanna agroecology of Ghana
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[14] Mr. Siboniso Nhlanhla Nkambule [South Africa] is an Agricultural engineer who is currently employed by Agricultural Research Council, a company that is located in South Africa. He is currently working in the Agricultural Mechanization, Agro-processing, and Renewable energy division. Mr. Nkambule holds a BSc and MSc both obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His focus is on the development of food processing equipment that will enable farmers to process quality products. Mr. Nkambule has published a paper on the development of a vertical-spikes shelling machine for Bambara groundnuts.
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The effect of moisture contents on the physical properties of both bambara groundnut seeds and pods in South Africa
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[15] Sarah Cherere Obara [Kenya] is a Clinical Dietetics Consultant, Clinical Practicum Coordinator, Lecturer, and a final year PHD candidate at the University of Nairobi-Department of Food Science Nutrition and Technology, in Kenya. She has vast experience in Clinical Dietetics specializing in Pediatric nutrition and dietetics management. Her interest in research is in micronutrient status of children and adolescents with neurodisability, in clinical care settings in Kenya. Special focus is on the dietary and nutritional interventions available for management of autism spectrum disorder symptoms, outcomes of which are in the interest of clinical nutrition and dietetics.
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A review of dietary and nutritional interventions available for management of autism spectrum disorder symptoms in children and adolescents - Kenya
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[16] Dr. Viola A. Nicholas-Okpara [Nigeria] is a Chief Research Officer at the Nutrition and Toxicology Department, Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO). Her current research interest is multidisciplinary and includes Biochemistry, Nutrition, Food Processing, Functional Foods, and Cell Biology. She is the current secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (FIIRO-zone) and Financial-Secretary Nutrition Society of Nigeria (Lagos-Chapter), driving the agenda of making Nigerians more informed and conscious about food choices they make for optimal health. Dr. Nicholas-Okpara is committed to creating an impactful profile where she works and is passionate about good nutrition for a healthy world.
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The impact of Covid-19 on Nigerian food systems
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