Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka, Kenya — Potato Expert Panel
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biography
Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka is an agricultural and development researcher with over 20 years of experience in Kenya’s agri-food systems. He is an agricultural economist specialising in food systems and sustainable enterprise development in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya, and a Research Fellow at the Environment for Development Institute (EfD).
His expertise spans agricultural value chains, seed systems, agribusiness development, sustainable livelihoods and natural resource governance. His work focuses on strengthening market systems, improving smallholder competitiveness, promoting agricultural innovation and advancing sustainable food systems, with particular interest in potato value chains, post-harvest management and value addition.
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.
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