Kenya: Dkt. Josiah Ateka, Mtafiti wa Kilimo Mwenye Zaidi ya Miaka 20 katika Mifumo ya Kilimo na Chakula, Anajiunga na Jopo la Wataalamu wa Viazi
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 Jopo la Wataalamu wa Viazi 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.
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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.
Maeneo ya utaalamu
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.
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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.
Jiunge na jopo
Potatoes.News Inawaalika wataalamu wa viazi kutoka nchi yoyote kujiunga na Jopo la Wataalamu wa Viazi. Ili kutuma maombi, andika kwa v.kovalev@ viazi.news yenye wasifu mfupi (maneno 80–150), maeneo yako ya utaalamu, nchi na shirika lako, na picha ya picha. Jopo hili ni hatua ya kwanza kuelekea mtandao wa kimataifa wa wataalamu wa viazi ambao tunaujenga pamoja na Ziara ya Kimataifa ya Viazi. Soma zaidi kuhusu uzinduzi wa jopo.
Based on the expert profile provided by Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka. Read his wasifu wa mtaalamu.
