NRI staff and their expertise in cassava
Louise Abayomi
Processing, storage, product development, quality assurance, supply chain management, food safety, waste products
Sarah Arnold
Insect pest and behaviour related to cassava
Aurelie Bechoff
Processing, storage, physico-chemical analyses including texture, sensory analysis
Ben Bennett
Marketing, International trade, value chains, economics
Sophie Bouvaine
Plant Molecular Biology/Virology, Crop pests and diseases
John Colvin
Epidemiology, Integrated Pest & Disease Management, Conventional & Transgenic Crop Resistances, Systematics; Project Management
Claire Coote
Marketing and socio-economics
Lora Forsythe
Gender and monitoring and evaluation
Richard Gibson
Seed systems, viruses, breeding
Maruthi Gowda
Crop pests and diseases, molecular biology and biotechnological applications for crop improvement
Andrew Graffham
Industrial processing, microbiology, food safety, trade and standards
Rebecca Grimsley
Bioassay methods for cassava whitefly
Maaike Hartog
Monitoring and evaluation
Rory Hillocks
Integrated crop management, IPM, disease epidemiology, production for market
Ulrich Kleih
Value chain analyses, market studies
Ravinder Kumar
Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact
Hanneke Lam
Market economics
Richard Lamboll
Climate change and social development
John Linton
Commercialisation of cassava products
Kirsty Malpas
Insectary and glasshouse work
Andrew Marchant
Agricultural engineering
Adrienne Martin
Monitoring and Evaluation, communication, promotion and dissemination, gender
Diego Naziri
Value Chains, economics
Valerie Nelson
Monitoring and evaluation
Ola Ogunyinka
Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact assessment
Gideon Onumah
Finance and market economics
Corinne Rumney
Food quality assessment
Sue Seal
Molecular diagnostics for viruses of root and tuber crops, generation of healthy planting material and quarantine implications
Tanya Stathers
Climate change and postharvest losses
Gillian Summers
Communication, promotion and dissemination
Keith Tomlins
Root and Tuber Crops Programme Leader. President of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops. Processing, storage, consumer acceptance, food safety, waste products.
Andrew Westby
Food technology, processing, microbiology, value chains
Kolawole Adebayo, NRI Visiting Professor
Socio-economics and monitoring and evaluation
Paa-Nii Johnson, NRI Visiting Professor
Food processing and technology
Lateef Sanni, NRI Visiting Professor
Food science and technology
William Otim-Nape, NRI Visiting Professor
Agricultural innovation systems
Nanam Dziedzoave, NRI Visiting Fellow
Food production and quality management
PhD students at NRI and their project titles
Thomas Adadu Omachi
Microfinance as an Appendage Source in Financing the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Cassava Middle Belt Region (North Central)
Gerald Akachi Otti
To identify CBSD-resistant cassava germplasm and genes
Jackie Atim
Whitefly resistance genes in wild cassava, Latin American and African genotypes.
Peter Beine
An economic assessment of the impact of improved cassava varieties and cassava seed delivery system on household production and welfare in Uganda
Lora Forsythe
The impact of staple crop value chain participation on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nigeria and Malawi
Saptarshi Ghosh
Understanding the mechanism and role of Wolbachia invasion in cassava whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) in SSA
Sumesh Kakkunnath
Identification and characterisation of cassava genes conferring resistance to cassava brown streak virus.
Siji Kavil
Understanding how insects thrive on cyanogenic cassava plants
Tadeo Kaweesi
Cassava utilization interference using dehydration and symbiont genes
Habibu Mugerwa
Molecular characterisation of cassava-colonising populations of the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci
Annet Namuddu
Cassava-utilisation interference using detoxification genes
Erica Zonese Ngwensang
Understanding the mechanism and genes in cassava varieties resistant to CMD
Joachim Nwezeobi
Transcriptomic and genomic studies of African cassava whitefly
Barbara Ofori-Kyere
An Inquiry into the Current and Future Impacts of Climate Change on Ghanaian Crop Farmers and the Possibilities for Adaptation: A Case Study of two Districts in Ghana