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Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka, an agricultural and development researcher at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), has joined the ຄະນະຜູ້ຊ່ຽວຊານດ້ານມັນຕົ້ນໂດຍ 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.

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.

ຂົງເຂດຄວາມຊໍານານ

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.

ມັນເປັນສິ່ງທີ່ສໍາຄັນ

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.

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Based on the expert profile provided by Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka. Read his ໂປຣໄຟລ໌ຜູ້ຊ່ຽວຊານ.