PhD Students

• Paul Afolabi - Development of improved processing for village-based root and tuber processing in sub-Saharan Africa [Lead Supervisor: Keith Tomlins]
• Fredrick Agyeman – Rural finance in Ghana [Lead Supervisor: Gideon Onumah]
• Julie Crenn - Developing biofortified products to address vitamin A deficiency in Africa [Lead Supervisor: Andrew Westby]
• Maria Carcamo de la Concepcion – Molecular and physiological characterization of blueberry during storage [Lead Supervisor: Richard Colgan]
• Rania Hassan – Promoting broad-based SME development in South Africa: Role of public policy initiatives [Lead Supervisor: Gideon Onumah]
• Michael Kariuki Ndegwa - Promoting Resilience and Food Security through Weather Risk-Contingent Credit in Africa [Lead Supervisor: Apurba Shee]
• Zainab Oyetunde-Usman – The impact of intensity of adoption of agricultural technology on rural farm households’ productivity, welfare and inequality [Lead Supervisor: Apurba Shee]
• Rajib Sarker – Role of credit rating agencies in enhancing access to finance in Bangladesh [Lead Supervisor: Gideon Onumah]

FaNSI scholarships

• Daniel Mbogo – Reducing the risk of Acrylamide in processing sweet potatoes [Lead Supervisor: Richard Colgan];
• Lydia O’Meara – Compiling global lessons to improve nutrition in traditional food systems, from multi-country evidence on drivers of food choice [Lead Supervisor: Julia de Bruyn with co-supervision from Kate Wellard and Elaine Ferguson (LSHTM)];
• Bernard Gathigi Munyua – Impact and adoption of quality protein maize in Ethiopia [Lead Supervisor: Apurba Shee with co-supervision from Julia de Bruyn and Hugo de Groote];
• Hamed Johnny Sarnavi – Development of a solar-assisted off-grid retrofitted fluidized bed dryer [Lead Supervisor: Marcelo Precoppe]

FaNSI Partnership Scholarships

• Kingsley Kamtambe – Understanding the value chains and post-harvest losses and waste of small pelagic fish in Malawi [Lead Supervisor: Baqir Lalani]
• Lizzie Saka – A food systems approach to understanding and supporting contributions of small pelagic fish to human [Lead Supervisor: Julia de Bruyn with co-supervision by Shakuntala Thilsted (WorldFish) and Horace Phiri (LUANAR)]
• Asoo Yaji – Host-plant interactions (Neonectria) infection in apple as a model system [Lead Supervisor: Richard Colgan]

Recently completed PhD

• Ros Fisher – Structural and biochemical factors affecting apple response to long-term low oxygen storage [Lead Supervisor: Debbie Rees]