Processing, storage, product development, quality assurance, supply chain management, food safety, waste products

Insect pest and behaviour related to cassava

Processing, storage, physico-chemical analyses including texture, sensory analysis

Marketing, International trade, value chains, economics

Plant Molecular Biology/Virology, Crop pests and diseases

Epidemiology, Integrated Pest & Disease Management, Conventional & Transgenic Crop Resistances, Systematics; Project Management

Marketing and socio-economics

Gender and monitoring and evaluation

Seed systems, viruses, breeding

Crop pests and diseases, molecular biology and biotechnological applications for crop improvement

Industrial processing, microbiology, food safety, trade and standards

Bioassay methods for cassava whitefly

Monitoring and evaluation

Integrated crop management, IPM, disease epidemiology, production for market

Value chain analyses, market studies

Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact

Market economics

Climate change and social development

Commercialisation of cassava products

Insectary and glasshouse work

Agricultural engineering

Monitoring and Evaluation, communication, promotion and dissemination, gender

Value Chains, economics

Monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact assessment

Finance and market economics

Food quality assessment

Molecular diagnostics for viruses of root and tuber crops, generation of healthy planting material and quarantine implications

Climate change and postharvest losses

Communication, promotion and dissemination

Root and Tuber Crops Programme Leader. President of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops. Processing, storage, consumer acceptance, food safety, waste products.

Food technology, processing, microbiology, value chains

Socio-economics and monitoring and evaluation

Food processing and technology

Food science and technology

Agricultural innovation systems

Food production and quality management

Microfinance as an Appendage Source in Financing the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Cassava Middle Belt Region (North Central)

To identify CBSD-resistant cassava germplasm and genes

Whitefly resistance genes in wild cassava, Latin American and African genotypes.

An economic assessment of the impact of improved cassava varieties and cassava seed delivery system on household production and welfare in Uganda

The impact of staple crop value chain participation on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nigeria and Malawi

Understanding the mechanism and role of Wolbachia invasion in cassava whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) in SSA

Identification and characterisation of cassava genes conferring resistance to cassava brown streak virus.

Understanding how insects thrive on cyanogenic cassava plants

Cassava utilization interference using dehydration and symbiont genes

Molecular characterisation of cassava-colonising populations of the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci

Cassava-utilisation interference using detoxification genes

Understanding the mechanism and genes in cassava varieties resistant to CMD

Transcriptomic and genomic studies of African cassava whitefly

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