Kenya: Dr Josiah Ateka, onye nyocha ọrụ ugbo nke nwere ihe karịrị afọ iri abụọ na sistemụ nri ọrụ ugbo, sonye na ndị ọkachamara na nduku.
Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka, who has over 20 years of experience in Kenya’s agri-food systems and researches the potato value chain at JKUAT, joins the Potato Expert Panel by Potatoes.News.
Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka, an agricultural and development researcher at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), has joined the Panel Ọkachamara Potato site na Potato.News. Based in Kenya, he has over 20 years of experience in the country’s agri-food systems.
Value chains and market systems
Ateka is an agricultural economist specialising in food systems and sustainable enterprise development, in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at JKUAT, and a Research Fellow at the Environment for Development Institute (EfD).
His work focuses on strengthening market systems, improving smallholder competitiveness, promoting agricultural innovation and advancing sustainable food systems. His expertise also covers seed systems, agribusiness development, sustainable livelihoods and natural resource governance.
Ụbọchị izu. Wepụ ndenye aha na otu pịa.
Research on Kenya’s potato value chain
His research on Kenya’s potato value chain examines food loss and waste reduction, farm mechanization, and opportunities for value addition through the utilization of potato residues and rejected tubers. His particular interests are potato value chains, post-harvest management and value addition.
Mpaghara nka
Potato value chain development and market systems; seed systems and agricultural technology adoption; post-harvest management and food loss and waste; agribusiness development and value addition; agricultural research and policy analysis.
GỊNỊ mere o ji gbanwee
Losses after harvest and weak market links reduce what growers earn from the crop they have already produced. For producers and traders in Kenya, a researcher who studies the potato value chain, from food loss and waste to mechanization and the use of rejected tubers, can explain what these findings mean in practice.
Jikọọ na panel
Potatoes.News na-akpọ ndị ọkachamara na nduku si mba ọ bụla ka ha sonye na ndị otu ọkachamara na nduku. Iji tinye akwụkwọ, degaara ha akwụkwọ ozi v.kovalev@poteto.news ya na obere akụkọ ndụ (okwu 80-150), ihe ị mụtara, obodo na nhazi gị, na foto eserese. Ndị otu a bụ nzọụkwụ mbụ iji nweta netwọkụ mba ụwa nke ndị ọkachamara nduku nke anyị na-ewulite yana International Potato Tour. Gụkwuo maka mmalite nke panel ahụ.
Based on the expert profile provided by Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka. Read his profaịlụ ọkachamara.
