11-12 December 2025, Nairobi, Kenya. Residential workshop Transformative Teaching of Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) - Linking Education, Innovation, and Enterprise Development

 

Organised with funding from the International Foundation for Science (IFS, Sweden) for the workshop operational costs and the European Commission who supports GFAiR and the Collective Action on Higher Education for Forgotten Foods.

 

Carlo Rega, Coordinator, Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra, Italy
 

Prof. Agnes W. Mwang’ombe, Professor of Plant Pathology, Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection and Coordinator, Seed Enterprise Management Institute (SEMIs), University of Nairobi, Kenya
 

Prof. Pravat Kumar Roul, Vice Chancellor, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, India - Higher Education and Agrifood Transformation in Asia
 

Dr. Sonia Peter, Founder and Executive Director, Biocultural Education and Research Programme (BERP), Barbados
 

Prof. Christopher Chiedozie Eze, University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Umuagwo, Nigeria

 

 

 

Ms Milcah Mlazamirwa Kalinga - Research Assistant, African Centre of Excellence in Neglected and Underutilised Biodiversity (ACENUB), Mzuzu University, Malawi

 

 

 

Professor Chrispen Murungweni, Executive Dean, School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Chinhoyi University of Technology

 

 

 

Prof Nelson K. Olang’o Ojijo, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya

 

 

 

Mr. Fahad Juma, Business Development Specialist, Egerton University Business Incubation Centre

 

 

 

Prof. Jwan Ibbini Associate Professor and Head of Department, Land Management and Environment, Hashemite University

 

 

 

Dr Oral O. Daley, Crop Scientist and Lecturer, Department of Food Production, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

 

 

 

Prof John H. Muyonga, Professor of Food Science and Technology, Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Makerere University, Uganda

 

 

 

Prof Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo Professor of Conservation Genetics, Forest Ecology and Ethnobotany, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin

 

 

 

 

Dr. Julia Sibiya Capacity Lead, Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS), CIMMYT-Kenya

 

Ms Cornelia Ganaa Kanyiri, Founder and Team Lead, Nelia’s Foods Limited