Meet the Team
Purdue Project Staff
Management Unit
Mr. Timothy Rendall
Managing Director
Ms. Tasmia Kasham
International Sponsored Program Administrator
Project Staff
Partners
North Carolina State University
Dr. Mario Ferruzzi (Processing and Nutrition)
Professor, Plants for Human Health Institute
Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Science
North Carolina State University
600 Laureate Way, Kannapolis, NC 28081
mferruz@ncsu.edu
(704) 250-5405
https://www.ncsu.edu/
University of Pretoria
Dr. Kwaku G. Duodu (Processing and Nutrition)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Food Science
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Gyebi.Duodu@up.ac.za
Phone: +27 12 4204296
+27 12 4202839
https://www.up.ac.za/
Prof. John R.N. Taylor (Processing and Nutrition)
Professor, Department of Food Science
University of Pretoria, South Africa
john.taylor@up.ac.za
+27 12 4204296
+27 12 4202839
https://www.up.ac.za/
KALRO
Patrick Ketiem (Drying and Storage)
Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
Senior Research Officer (Climate change/agroprocessing)
Food Crops Research Centre
Njoro, Nakuru-Kenya, Private Bag - 20107, Njoro
pkketiem@yahoo.com
+254 722 870 608
https://www.kalro.org/
CIMMYT
Dr. Hugo De Groote (Economics)
Principal Scientist (Agricultural Economics), CIMMYT,
ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri
P.O. Box 1041, Village Market-00621, Nairobi, Kenya
h.degroote@cgiar.org
+254 20 7224604 or +254 711 034604
https://www.cimmyt.org/
University of Eldoret (Moi), Kenya
Dr. Violet Kadenyeka Mugalavai (Processing and Nutrition)
Head of Department, Family & Consumer Sciences,
Director, Industrial Linkages, Partnerships & Collaborations,
University of Eldoret
P.O. BOX 1125, Eldoret, 30100, Kenya
violet.mugalavai@gmail.com
+254720 384 145, +254772128859, +254738698005
http://www.uoeld.ac.ke/
Institute Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA)
Dr. Ibrahima Sarr (Drying and Storage)
ISRA/CNRA
BP: 53 Bambey (Senegal)
+221 33 9 736 348
ibrahima.sarr@isra.sn, sardr@yahoo.com
drsarr
https://www.irsa.sn/
Institut de Technologie Alimentaire - ITA
Dr. Cheikh Ndiaye (Processing and Nutrition)
Route des Péres Maristes, Hann-DAKAR-SENEGAL-PB: 2765
(221) 33 859 0707 (fixed), (221) 77 818 9937 (mobile)
(221) 33 832 8295
chndiaye@ita.sn
http://www.ita.sn/
Dr. Djibril Traore
djibril@ostatemail.okstate.edu
Others
- A to Z Textile Mills LTD
- Bell Industries Limited
- CIP International Potato Center
- Daroum Salam Cereal Processing Unit (Mme. Mbacke) - Senegal
