Kenya: Dr Josiah Ateka, an Agricultural Researcher With Over 20 Years in Agri-Food Systems, Joins the Potato Expert Panel
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 ʻO ka Papa Loea ʻUala na Potatoes.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.
Nā lā pule. E wehe i ke kau inoa me hoʻokahi kaomi.
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.
Nā wahi o ka ʻike
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.
NO KA MEA HOI
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.
E hui pū me ka papa
Potatoes.News ke kono nei i nā loea ʻuala mai kekahi ʻāina e hui pū me ka Potato Expert Panel. No ke noi ʻana, e kākau iā v.kovalev@potatoes.news me kahi moʻolelo pōkole (80-150 mau huaʻōlelo), kou mau wahi akamai, kou ʻāina a me ka hui, a me kahi kiʻi paʻi kiʻi. ʻO ka panela ka hana mua i kahi pūnaewele honua o nā loea ʻuala a mākou e kūkulu pū nei me ka International Potato Tour. E heluhelu hou aʻe e pili ana i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka panela.
Based on the expert profile provided by Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka. Read his ʻikepili loea.
