Workpackage Coordinators
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Lora FORSYTHE
Leader
NRI
United-Kingdom
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L.Forsythe [at] greenwich.ac.uk
Associate Professor Gender, Inequalities and Food Systems at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich. RTBfoods Work Package 1 Coordinator.
Research interests: understanding the gender, socio-economic and cultural dynamics of livelihoods, applied in a variety of development contexts, namely value chain development, food security and nutrition, food choice, crop varietal development and land and natural resource rights. Lora’s key skills are mixed-method qualitative and quantitative research, gender and diversity analysis, participatory methodologies, capacity strengthening, and evaluation and impact methodologies. Lora also contributes her expertise to teaching and learning activities at the Institute within the UK and internationally. Lora was also awarded the University of Greenwich’s Outstanding Achievement in Research Award in 2018.
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Geneviève FLIEDEL
Co-leader
CIRAD
France
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genevieve.fliedel [at] cirad.fr
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Tessy MADU
Co-leader
NRCRI
Nigeria
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tessmadu [at] gmail.com
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WP2 - Biophysical Characterization of Quality Traits
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Busie MAZIYA-DIXON
Leader WP2
IITA
Nigeria
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B.Maziya-Dixon [at] cgiar.org
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Christian MESTRES
Co-leader
CIRAD
France
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christian.mestres [at] cirad.fr
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Thierry TRAN
Co-leader
CIAT/CIRAD
Colombia
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thierry.tran [at] cgiar.org
Dr. Thierry Tran trained in Food Science and Technology, and has 17 years of research experience in postharvest processing and its influence on quality and sustainability of cassava and other RTB products. His research interests combine different approaches including evaluation of post-harvest quality traits, processing ability, process efficiency (energy, water and product losses), utilization of by-products and environmental impact assessments. He has worked at CIRAD (Montpellier, France), Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand) on large-scale cassava starch production systems, and is currently contributing to the Cassava Program at the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT (Cali, Colombia).
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Christophe BUGAUD
Co-leader Sensory Focal Point
CIRAD
France
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Christophe Bugaud Ph.D, HDR - christophe.bugaud [at] cirad.fr
Current job: CIRAD, Food Science Researcher on sensory quality of tropical crops, RTBfoods sensory focal point
Main research interests: For over 20 years, Christophe has specialized in understanding the determinism of sensory quality in dairy products (cheese, thesis) and fruits (banana, mango and plantain). During 13 years spent in the French West Indies, he was involved in identifying the physico-chemical determinants of sensory (appearance, colour, texture, flavour, aromas), nutritional (minerals, polyphenols) and technological (storability) quality in bananas. He characterised hybrids from the banana breeding programme created by CIRAD and developed methodologies for their evaluation. On both bananas and mangoes, he was interested in the pre- and post-harvest factors impacting the final quality of the products. He also participates in the development of crops (banana, mango, RTB) in the Caribbean and Africa through expertise, training and specific studies aimed at improving the quality of products.
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Layal DAHDOUH
Co-leader Texture Focal Point
CIRAD
France
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layal.dahdouh [at] cirad.fr
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WP3 - High-throughput Phenotyping Protocols (HTPP)
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Fabrice DAVRIEUX
Leader
CIRAD
La Reunion France
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fabrice.davrieux [at] cirad.fr
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Emmanuel ALAMU
Co-leader
IITA
Zambia
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Emmanuel Alamu,(PhD, FIFST, MNIFST) - o.alamu [at] cgiar.org
Current job, IITA, Zambia, Associate Scientist (Food Science and Technology), RTBfoods project Work Package 3 Co-leader
Main research interests. Dr Emmanuel Alamu holds BSc and MSc chemistry, and a doctorate in Food Chemistry with over 16 years of research experience and strong analytical skills in food and nutrition sciences, and experienced in carrying out nutrition-sensitive agricultural research using different tools and techniques. Specifically, his research lines primarily examined: the physical and bioactive characteristics of biofortified and non-biofortified crops such as soybean, maize, cowpea, cassava, yam; retention studies on the bioactive compounds in unprocessed and processed biofortified crops and foods; anti-oxidant activities/capacities of unprocessed and processed biofortified crops; bioavailability and bioefficacy of processed biofortified crops and associated products; sensory characteristics of products from biofortified crops. Product development/sensory evaluation and consumer tests of the developed products, Food to food fortification (cereal, root or tuber flour with a legume flour added) targeting household level and processors at different scales. He has many publications in local and foreign journals.
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Thomas ZUM FELDE
Co-leader
Independent consultant
Peru
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tfelde93 [at] gmail.com
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WP4 - Integrated end-user focused RTB Breeding
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Hâna CHAÏR
Leader
CIRAD
France
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hana.chair [at] cirad.fr
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Asrat AMELE
Co-leader for Yam
IITA
Nigeria
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a.amele [at] cgiar.org
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Robert KAWUKI
Co-leader for Cassava
NaCRRI
Uganda
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Boiled Cassava - kawukisezirobert [at] gmail.com
Current job: Principal Research Officer (Plant Breeding), National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), Uganda.
Main research interests: Studying relationships between plant phenotypes (end-user traits) and genotypes and using tools, principles and techniques available within the realms of plant breeding, all with intention of improving crop value for benefit of humankind. Accordingly, I have since 2000 undertaken crop research on staple and/or leverage commodities including soybean, banana and cassava, and thus attained islands of success!
I began my research journey on soybean between 2000 and 2002, before taking up a position at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA-Uganda) to work on banana between 2003 and 2004. However, since 2005 I have been employed by NARO as a cassava breeder and based at National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Namulonge; through this duty, I have been able to officially release nine cassava varieties between 2011 and 2015; one variety NAROCASS 1 has been widely disseminated by national programmes of Tanzania and Rwanda. As of this writing, I am keenly involved in: a) re-organizing cassava breeding operations so as to breed for defined “product profiles’ and b) adopting proven tools, methods and approaches that increase cassava breeding efficiency and relevance. I cherish science communication and have thus, published extensively in a number of refereed journals.
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Thiago MENDES
Co-leader for Potato
CIP
Kenya
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T.Mendes [at] cgiar.org
Thiago Mendes holds PhD in Genetics and Breeding. During his career he develop a solid experience on plant science, plant breeding strategies, statistics analysis/mixed models/quantitative genetic and extensive field experience establishing, managing and collecting data in field experiments. With a robust experience on breeding polyploid/vegetatively propagated crop, he joined International Potato Center in 2017 to support the effort on potato breeding innovation for Africa, based in Nairobi.
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Reuben SSALI
Co-leader for Sweetpotato
CIP
Uganda
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R.Ssali [at] cgiar.org
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Brigitte UWIMANA
Co-leader for Matooke
IITA
Uganda
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B.Uwimana [at] cgiar.org
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Xiaofei ZHANG
Co-leader for Cassava
CIAT
Colombia
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Xiaofei Zhang Ph.D. - xiaofei.zhang [at] cgiar.org
Current job: Cassava Breeder, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Main research interests: Xiaofei’s research interest is in the area of plant genetics and breeding, including trait discovery and deployment, population improvement and variety development. His interests include investigating the molecular genetics of complex quantitative traits including disease resistance and end-use quality, exploiting modern genomics and phenomics technologies in applied plant breeding to increase genetic gain, and incorporating multiple superior traits into new varieties using classical and modern breeding methods.
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WP5 - Participatory Varietal Selection
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Gérard Bertin NGOH NEWILAH
Co-leader
CARBAP
Cameroon
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gbngoh [at] gmail.com
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Alexandre BOUNIOL
Co-leader
UAC-FSA / Cirad
Benin
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alexandre.bouniol [at] cirad.fr
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Béla TEEKEN
Co-leader
IITA
Nigeria
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b.teeken [at] cgiar.org
Béla Teeken is an associate social and gender scientist at IITA and is based in Ibadan Nigeria. He is especially interested in how the biophysical environment, local institutions, and culture shape and determine local agricultural innovations and how such innovations and practices relate to those of formal scientific research. He worked shortly on grassroots innovations at the NGO ‘Sristi’ in India, before pursuing his PhD research at Wageningen University. His PhD research combined social science with plant science and genetics studying the interaction between rice genotypes, ecological and sociocultural factors within farmer seed innovation, and selection pathways among different ethnic minorities. After his PhD research he worked at IITA as a post-doctoral fellow on interdisciplinary research including social segmentation and specifically gender, in relation to user-preferred cassava trait preferences. Within the Nextgen Cassava and RTBfoods and CGIAR RTB CRP projects he is now working together with biophysical scientist to further study gender and other social dynamics in relation to RTB crop production and processing to inform and reform CGIAR breeding programs.
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WP6 - Project Coordination & Monitoring
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Dominique DUFOUR
Leader
CIRAD
France
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Dominique Dufour Ph.D. - dominique.dufour [at] cirad.fr
Current job: CIRAD, Food Science Researcher on Tropical Starchy Perishable Crops, CIRAD/IRD CRP-RTB focal point ; RTBfoods project leader
Main research interests: Adding value to roots Tubers & Bananas to improve livelihoods. For over 30 years Dominique has specialized in adding value to cassava, sweet potato, yam, cocoyam, taro, plantain, and minor RTB crops in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He has studied how consumer preferences affect varietal adoption by farmers and how consumer or end-user expectations inform the research process; for example, defining quality requirements for processed RTB products regarding shelf life, texture, nutritional/antinutritional values, and more. Dominique’s research also focuses on equipment for eco-friendly industrial processes using life cycle analysis methodology (especially water and energy use) to bring new products to market with minimum environmental costs.