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 Potato Expert Panel by 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.
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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.
Areas of expertise
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.
WHY IT MATTERS
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.
Join the panel
Potatoes.News invites potato professionals from any country to join the Potato Expert Panel. To apply, write to v.kovalev@potatoes.news with a short biography (80–150 words), your areas of expertise, your country and organisation, and a portrait photo. The panel is the first step towards an international network of potato professionals that we are building together with the International Potato Tour. Read more about the launch of the panel.
Based on the expert profile provided by Dr Josiah Mwangi Ateka. Read his expert profile.
