I am currently the Director for Strategic Partnerships at Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I am an Agriculture Research and Development professional with multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral background experience in Horticulture, Agronomy, project management, capacity building, rural agriculture development, seed systems, public-private sector partnerships, marketing systems, value chain development and technology transfer. I coordinate the design and program implementation of practical and innovative agricultural extension and advisory service delivery and capacity building in Africa to help reduce hunger and poverty. My work has focused on multidisciplinary R&D disciplines that integrates agriculture, nutrition and health through the development and dissemination of Agriculture technologies and best practices such as integrated crop management technologies, climate-smart sustainable agriculture practices, resilient crop varieties and nutrition sensitive technologies that impacts rural and urban communities in Africa to improve their productivity, income, livelihoods and health. My current outreach efforts contribute to greater impacts by improving the effectiveness and adoption of agriculture technologies and proven practices and approaches; with the aim of increasing farmers income and food and nutrition security through promoting market-oriented, sustainable, resilient, and regenerative and nutrition-sensitive agricultural innovations as well as building the capacity of Extension Agents and farmers.

My research has been focused on cropping and production systems, crop diversification, variety improvement, genetic resources, biodiversity, home gardening, food processing, nutrition/neutraceutical values, seed physiology/production/technology, seed systems; and the physiological, biophysical and biochemical processes that regulate growth and development in crops – including processes for maintaining seed quality and post-harvest physiology/technology.