KIFP/F§

. 1986 KELLOGG INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IN FOOO SYSTEMS

KELLOGG INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IN FOOD SYSTEMS

The KIFP/FS is a three-year, non­ which will require approximately degree program to advance one-fourth of their time: professional leadership in bringing • An individual. in-country project about improvements in food directly related to program goals systems in developing countries. of KIFP/ FS The program is administered by Michigan State University, and is • Annual. two-week seminar funded by a grant from the W. K. workshops. Kellogg Foundation. • Travel study tri ps Since its establishment in 1930, the • Networking with other Fellows W. K. Kellogg Foundation has and their institutions. supported fellowship and professional leadership An important goal of the program is development programs in its three to enhance professional interest areas of health, education effectiveness by broadening and and agricu I ture. deepening the Fellows' understanding of the possibilities This brochure presents biographical for improving food system perform­ information for the 32 mid-career ance through policy reforms, professionals selected for organization and institutional participation in the KIFP/FS. innovations and technological Over a three-year period beginning adva ncem en t. in mid-1986, the selected Fellows will participate in these activities KIFPIFS FELLOWS

Sitt EI Nafar Badi Eugenia Muchnik Shanti Bapna Julio Paz David Blandford Ronald Piggott Antonio Campino Sathyapala Colin Carter Pinnaduwage Maximiliano Cox Norberto Ouezada Fernando Dall'Acqua Vony Sampaio Mahmud Duwayri Samuel Sefa-Dedeh Pascal Fotzo Alvaro Silva Chaiwat Konjing Hidayat Syarief Antonio Ledesma James Teri Nguyuru Lipumba Davendra Tyagi Cassio Luiselli Tomas Uribe-Mosquera Boniface Makau Isabel Vial de Valdes Jaime Matus Wen Simei Katundu Mtawali Ephrem Whingwiri Van Rui-zhen

PROGRAM STEERING MSU PROJECT STAFF [OMMITIEE

William Gamble, International Harold Riley, Director Consultant Darrell Fienup, Assoc. Director Bryant Kearl, University a/Wisconsin Ardell Ward, Adm. Asst. Gustavo Nores, Inf I. Ctr Tropical Agr., Olivia Reid, Office Mgr. Colombia, (etAT) Joan Parker, Program Asst. Per Pi nstrup-Andersen, Int'( Food Policy Res. [nst. Wash. DC. (lFPRl) Mau rice Rolls, University 0/ Reading, England Dunstan Spencer, Int'l. Inst. Tropical Agr., Nigeria, (lITA) •

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Direcwr Association of Cereal Chemists She Food Research Centre is also the Sudanese representative Khartoum, Sudan to the International Cereal Chemists. Before assuming her position as director, Sitt was head of the Grain Sitt has developed many new Technology Department at the Food products from sorghum and other Research Centre for nine years locally produced grains She has designed new milling techniques Sitt earned both her master's and and supervised the establishment doctor's degrees in grain science of 115 mec hanical bakeries in from Kansas State University She Khartoum . Sitt has authored received certification of grain numerous pamphlets, technical handling and storage from the reports and articles on grains, Institute of Grain, Moscow, Russia cereals and cereal products after acquiring a bachelor's degree including a chapter in Composite Flour in botany from the University of Technical Compendium, issued by FAO Khartoum. As her project, Sitt wi II work on Among the professional development of a new sorghum and organizations in which Sitt has been millet-based food forti fied wi th active are the National Grain chickpea, sesame, and ground nuts. Storage Committee, Board of Using Food Centre staff. new Directors for Food Security in methods of food processing will be Sudan, National Agricultural used and the products will be Research Council. Sudanese Society consumer-tested for acceptabi I ity for Environment and the American SHANTIBAPNA

Professor was a visiting fellow in the Il1dial1 Il1stitute of Mal1agemel1t Department of at Yale Ahmedahad, Il1dia University, in 1979. While at Yale, Shanti did research on factor Shanti, who has been with the demand and output supply for Institute since 1979, teaches se mi-arid tropical crops. courses on agricultural marketing management and development Shanti is a member of the Indian policies His research centers on Society of Agricultural Econom ics development and testing of and the Indian Society of Public empirical models for forecasting Administration crop output and price structure. Shanti 's fellowship activity will Shanti is also involved with include research and development development of management of a plan for effective organization programs for rural industries, such of food distribution systems to as hand loom and handicrafts benefit the absolute poor in India. He acquired his bachelor of commerce degree from M.B. College in India. Shanti received his master's degree in economics from Rajasthan University, and his doctor's degree in economics from Sardar Patel University, India. Shanti was a marketing economist at ICRISAT in Hyderabad, India and (OECD) in Paris, France. While there he worked on an analysis of food consumption patterns in the OECD area. He also studied changes in []AVI[] BLAN[]F[]R[] the food industry and agricultural trade problems David obtained his doctoral degree Associate Professor in agricultural economics from the Department of Agricultural University of Manchester in 1976. Economics, While working on his , he Agriculture and Ufe Sciences taught statistics and economics at Cornell University Salford University and Manchester ItJiaca, New York University He was awarded a master's degree in economics from At Cornell. David teaches and does the University of Manchester. David research in agricultural policy, took his undergraduate degree in international trade and commodity geography at Birmingham policy analysis He currently chairs UniverSity. a task force set up by the Northeast Regional Council as part of the David has published extensively project "Toward 2005" to analyze over the past 13 years He also is a the future outlook for agriculture manuscript reviewer for several and related industries in the journals One of his current research northeastern United States. He is projects is a study of world market also a member of a USDA­ instability and US agricultural University research consortium on policy international trade. The focus of David's KIFP/ FS David took a sabbatical from project is the future evolution of Cornell during 1982 and 1983. He trade and trading relationships in spent this time with the feed and livestock products Organization of Economic between the developed and Cooperation and Development developing world. ANT[]NI[] [AMPIN[]

Professor course on nutrition at the University Department of Economics of Sao Paulo. University of Sao Paulo Antonio has authored numerous Sao Paulo, Brazil textbooks and research articles on In addition to teaching courses in nutrition economics, He is a recognized scholar in this area in food and nutrition economics, Antonio is research director of the Brazil. Department of Economics' Institute Presently he serves as a board of Economic Research Foundation member of CERNA, the Regional (FIPE) at the University of Sao Center for Studies in Food and Paulo. Nutrition. Antonio took a bachelor's degree in As his project. Antonio will conduct economics at the University of Sao an evaluation of nutrition programs Paulo. He earned a master's degree in Brazil. in economic development from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, In 1973 he received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Sao Paulo. In 1977, Antonio was the recipient of a 5-year grant from the Ford Foundation to administer and coordinate a multidisciplinary r:::OL.IN £::ARTER

Professor Annual Award for excellence in Department of Agricultural graduate teaching during the 1984­ Economics 85 term. University of Manitoba Colin obtained a bachelor's degree Winnipeg. Canada in economics and a master's degree Colin has been with the University in agricultural economics from the since 1980. His teaching and University of Alberta His studies research interests are in the continued at the University of marketing and trade area. California at Berkeley where he obtained a master's degree in He has published his research economics and a doctoral degree in results in a number of journals, agricultural economics in 1980. includin~ the American lournal of Agricultural Economics and the Colin is currently working on the Western lournal of Agricultural economics of trade flows between Economics. In addition, he has co­ Asia and North America. As his authored a book on grain export project, he wi II focus on major cartels and has contributed economic reforms in China, and chapters to three different books on how these reforms might be marketing and trade. extended into the food marketing and distribution system In 1981 , Colin was the recipient of the American Agricultural Economics Association Award for "Quality of Research Discovery " He received the University of Manitoba London School of Economics. He MAXIMILIANI] [I]X also received an AID fellowship to the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Coordina tor- master's degree in agricultural Agricultural Proiect economics in 1967. Centro de Estudios Del Maximiliano was director of studies Desarrollo (CEO) at Desarrollo Campesino SA. a Santiago, Chile private organization controlled by As a coordinator of CED's the major Chilean peasant agricultural project. Maximiliano is organizations In this capacity, he responsi ble for a three-year project coordinated a Ford Foundation of applied agricultural policy research program aimed at research . This project is aimed at establishing basic elements of a determining Chile's food and peasant development strategy. agricultural potential. including an Between 1977 and 1981, he worked evaluation of changes required to with the World Bank in Washington, reach its potential. and previously was a full-time He also serves as a private professor with the Department of international consultant for FAO, Agricultural Economics at the IBRD and lOB . He is a member of Catholic University the Ch i lean Agronom ists of Santiago Association and the Society for Maximi)iano's project will be a International Development (SID) study of the process and difficulties Maximiliano was the recipient of a of agricultural policy-making in Ford Foundation fellowship to Chile, which has a heterogeneous undertake graduate study at the agrarian structure. FERNANDO DALL"A£:OUA

Senior Economic Advisor Fernando holds a bachelor's degree Grupo Pao de Acucar in agronomy from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Sao Paulo at Piracicaba. He earned a master's degree in economics Fernando is an advisor to the board from the FUl1dacao Cetulio Vargas In of directors of Crupo Pao de Acucar, 1982, Fernando was awarded a the largest supermarket chain in doctorate in development from the Brazil. His area of expertise is on University of Wisconsin at Madison. food pol icy issues particu larly in relation to production, He has co-authored several articles consumption and distribution of in his field, and is on the editorial agricultural products. council of two journals

He also teaches courses in Fernando's project will be a study of economics at the Getulio Vargas the impact of Brazil's new large Foundation, and is an economic scale food distribution program advisor to the Ministry of Finance, targeted for low income consumers. where he evaluates new policies and programs for the improvement of the Brazi I ian food system.

Prior to holding these positions, Fernando was coordinator of economic research at EMBRAPAs National Research Center for Rice and Beans at Brasilia for seven years. MAHMU[] []UWAYRI

Dean- At the American University in Faculty of Agriculture Beirut, Mahmud obtained a University of Jordan bachelor's degree in agriculture, Amman, Jordan soils and irrigation and a master's degree in agronomy In 1973, he Mahmud has been with the received a doctoral degree in plant University of Jordan since 1973. He breeding and plant genetics from rose from assistant professor to his the University of Wisconsin at present position, during which time Madison. He also received a he was a major influence on the Fulbright Award to do research on faculty of agriculture's growth from drought tolerance of cereal grains at an enrollment of 70 students to Washington State University's over 1,000 students each year. Department of Agronomy. Along with his administrative Mahmud will study constraints to responsibilities at the university, the adoption of modern Mahmud has led a cereal technologies in the rain-fed (semi­ improvement program in arid) agriculture of lordan. He is cooperation with the Ministry of particularly concerned with the Agriculture and ICARDA. the problem of land fragmentation and International Center for Agricultural the use of demonstration farms to Research in the Dry Areas. Mahmud promote more efficient production. has also participated in the development of curricula and textbooks for the agricultural high schools and community colleges in lordan. PAS[AL FOTZO University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 1983, Pascal earned his doctorate in Senior Lecturer agricultural economics at Michigan Department of Rural Economics State University Dscnang University Centre Among Pascal's current Dscnang, Cameroon memberships are the International Association for Agricultural Pascal's research investigations Economists, the African Association have been in the economics of rice for the Advancement of Agricultural in West and Central Africa. Prior to Sciences and the West Africa joining the University, Pascal served Farming Systems Research Network. as Extension Economist for the He is editor of the West Africa Journal West Africa Rice Development of Agricultural Economists, as well as Association, where he helped being author and co-author of establish a technological numerous published articles. assessment and transfer program for the upland rice ecology in West At the University Centre of Dschang, Africa. Pascal teaches undergraduate courses in the area of farm He acquired his diploma in management and production biology/ chemistry from the Faculty economics. He also coordinates of Sciences, Yaounde. He then farming system efforts within the earned his Ingenieur Agronome at the university sphere. University of Yaounde. Pascal was the recipient of a Ford Foundation His project will focus on preparing Fellowship during his course of an analysis of the rice subsector in study to obtain his master's degree the context of Cameroon's food in agricultural economics at the system policies £:HAIWAT KON...JING doctor's degree in agricultural and applied economics. CHAIWAT KONJING-(I.D.) Chaiwat has served and continues to serve on a variety of national Chairman committees, which include the Department of Agricultural National Economic Policy Economics Formulation Committee (appointed Kasetsart University by the Prime Minister), the National Bangkok. Thailand Committee on Agricultural Marketing System Improvement, Chaiwat joined the university in and the National Economic 1965 as a lecturer in agricultural Research Committee. He acted as marketing, prices and international program supervisor of a training agricultural trade and policy. program in agricultural development planning, which was He received his bachelor's degree in organized by the ASEAN agricultural economics from Agricultural Development Planning Kasetsart University, thereby Center in Bangkok. earning a SEATO scholarship award. Chaiwat attended Michigan State To coincide with Chaiwat's University through an Agricultural professional interest in the Development Council Fellowship, adoption of new technology and its where he obtained a master's social impact on rural community degree in agricultural economics. In life in Thailand, he has selected as 1972, Chaiwat was awarded a his project an analysis of food Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship consumption and distribution Award to attend the University of systems serving rural households Minnesota, where he earned a in Thailand. ANT[]NI[] LE[]ESMA

Dean time, he undertook dissertation Xavier University College of research on landless workers and Agriculture small rice farmers. , The Antonio was instrumental in the In addition to coordinating all organization, and is presently academic activities related to the chairman of the Philippine College of Agriculture, Antonio is Partnership for the Development of director of the Southeast Asia Rural Human Resources in Rural Areas. Social Leadership Institute. This organization is a network of non-government agencies engaged Antonio received his bachelor's in rural development throughout degree in and government the Philippines with a focus on from Ateneo de Manila University agrarian reform and food issues. He He obtained his master's degree in is also president of the Philippine political science at the University of Sociological Society. the Philippines. He attended Loyola School of Theology in Quezon City Antonio will examine alternative and was ordained a Jesuit priest. strategies for agrarian reform in Antonio took a doctoral degree in the Philippines. development at the Land Tenure Center of the University of Wisconsin. In 1977, he began a 3-year research fellowship at the International Rice Research Institute at Los Banos. During this N6lJYlJRlJ LIPLIMBA

Lecturer He has served as editor of the University of Dar Es Salaam Journal of Economic Society of Tanzania Dar Es Salaam. Tanzania and has published material on economic stabilization policies in As a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Tanzania. Nguyuru studied economics at Stanford University, culminating in Nguyuru's project will be an both a master's and doctor's analysis of food system degree. Majoring in economics at organizational problems and the the University of Dar Es Salaam, he design of policy alternatives. received a bachelor's and master's degree. Along with Nguyuru's teaching responsibilities, he is also director of the Macroeconomic Management Policy Project. Construction of a supply-oriented macroeconomic model and agricultural sector model are his research responsibilities. Nguyuru is also involved with preparation of an Exchange Rate Policy for Tanzania, assessing its projected impact on exports and food crops in the agricultural sector. nutrition. He was also founder and member of the board of,NUTRIMEX. a public corporation responsible for the production of fortified foods [A551[] LUI5ELLI and baby foods. Cassio has published extensively on matters of food and rural Deputy DirecliJr development. He has recently co ~ Economic Commission for Latin authored a book on agricultural America relations between Mexico and the and the Caribbean (ECLAC) United States. Mexico City. Mexico In 1972, Cassio earned his master's degree in economics from the As deputy director of ECLAC's University of Wisconsin and has regional office, Cassio evaluates finished the coursework for a and designs food policy projects for doctoral degree. His undergraduate Mexico, Central America and the degree in economics was taken at Caribbean. the Autonomous National Prior to this position, Cassio was University of Mexico. agricultural advisor to the Mexican Over the last 10 years he has Presidency. He conducted the travelled extensively throughout the studies that led to the development world on fact~finding and formal of SAM, a national program to missions of collaboration as head promote the development of the of SAM. More recently, Cassio has Mexican food system. In addition to travelled to participate in food and being general coordinator of SAM, rural development policy Cassio designed and directed SAM's discussions as a representative of nutritional education and ECLAC orientation campaign, producing among other things, nutritional As his project, Cassio will study how charts, cook books, children's books macroeconomic policies affect the and television advertisements on poor in Mexico. BONIFA[E MAKALJ received his master's degree in economics from the University of Science Secretary Nairobi. National Council for Science & Active in several organizations, Technology Boniface is a member of the Kenyan Nairobi, Kenya Chapter of the Society for International Development. the As Agriculture Sciences Secretary of Agricultural Society of Kenya, and NCST, Boniface plays a major role serves as vice-chairman for the in the determination of policies and Kenya Economic Association . priorities in agricultural research and development He acts in liaison He has organized and officiated at with various ministries and numerous professional conferences. institutions to promote Boniface has participated in a identification and evaluation of variety of study programs abroad agricultural research and sponsored by USAID, the development projects Before taking governments of Venezuela and his current post. Boniface was an Kenya, the United Nations and the agricultural research officer with the Commonwealth Science Council. Ministry of Agriculture and a Boniface plans to study the scientific assistant with the Ministry respective roles and of Finance and Economic Planning interrelationships of the private and Boniface holds two bachelor's public sectors for promotion and degrees; one is in agriculture from fundi ng of agricultural research in Makerere University, Uganda, the Kenya . He intends to include a other is in economics from the comparative analysis with selected University of Nairobi. In 1984, he countries. ...JAIME MATLJS

Head- Association of Agricultural Department of Economics Economists. Postgraduate School Since 1970, Jaime has been Chapingo, Mexico conducting analyses of economic In addition to his administrative policies affecting the agricultural duties as head of economics at sector. His KIFP/FS project will be Chapingo, Jaime teaches further analysis of government econometrics and quantitative participation in food systems, methods. He also conducts research particularly agricultural price on national economic policies and support pol icies. international trade. He has a special interest in Mexican agriculture development. Jaime earned a doctor's degree in agricultural economics at Purdue University in 1979. He received a master's degree in statistics from the Postgraduate School at Chapingo, and an undergraduate degree at the National School for Agriculture at Chapingo. Jaime is an active member of both the Mexican and the International KATLIN[)U MTAWALI

Principal Economist sented Malawi on various fora . His Ministry of Agriculture most recent endeavor was as Lilongwe. Malawi Malawi 's representative to the food security component of SADCC, Katundu has been with the where he participated in the Planning Division of the Ministry of preparation of a joint grain storage Agriculture since 1972, where he is project with Zimbabwe. now responsible for pricing, marketing and project evaluation. Katundu's project will be an analysis of characteristics of He received his bachelor's degree in households facing food insecurity economics and statistics from the in Malawi. University of Malawi. After attending the University of New England in Australia, Katundu went on to Williams College, Massachusetts, where he took a master's degree in development economics. Katundu also holds a diploma in International Trade from UNCTAD/ GATT, and a certificate in agricultural marketing from the Technical University of Berlin. Along with publishing papers on pricing policies, production and distribution, Katundu has repre­ ELJGENIA MLJ£:HNIK She has published extensively in the field of agricultural economics, including economics of animal Direc tor- health and I ivestock production, Department of Agricultural agricultural marketing and trade. Economics More recently, she has authored articles in the area of nutrition Pontificia Universidad Catolica economics. de Chile Santiago, Chile In addition to her duties as head of the Agricultural Economics Before joining the faculty at Department at the Catholic Catholic University, Eugenia University, Eugenia's research conducted research in the Tropical interests are currently focused on Pastures Program at the nutrition economics and the International Center for Tropical political economy of agricultural Agriculture (ClAT) in Colombia, pricing policies and trade in Chile, Eugenia earned her doctorate and For her project Eugenia and Isabel master's degrees in economics at Vial de Valdes, also a KIFP/ FS the University of Minnesota in Fellow, plan to work jointly to Minneapolis She took her evaluate a nutrition/health bachelor's degree in economics intervention program in Chile. This from the University of Chile in will integrate nutrition, Santiago. socioeconomic and school In 1974, Eugenia was the recipient performance surveys of a sample in of a Ford Foundation Fellowship to a selected urban area, Eugenia will support her doctoral dissertation give particular attention to the work at CIAT. macro-policy aspects of public nutrition implementation programs, JULI[] PAZ

Director- lulio earned a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Policy Analysis Group economics from San Marcos Ministry of Agriculture University in Lima. In 1969, he was Lima, Peru awarded a master's degree in economics from the Johns Hopkins Julio's major professional interest is University. agricultural policy analysis, with special emphasis on international Over the past 10 years, Julio has trade. He has worked extensively on travelled extensively in Latin trade and economic integration, America and Europe to attend and especially with respect to Andean participate in various seminars and group countries. workshops on trade and economic matters. Prior to his role as director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Group Julio's project is designed to in Peru's Ministry of Agriculture, evaluate and redefine government Julio served as senior economist at policy toward the agricultural sector the Junta del Acuerdo de Cartgena . He in Peru, mainly through price and was an international trade expert market intervention and related and consultant to the United institutional arrangements. Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for four years Julio has also been a faculty member at Catholic University and the University of Lima. RONALD PIGGOTT

Senior Lecturer of Australian Universities and Department of Agricultural Colleges Economics and Business He has published several scientific Management papers and book chapters and co­ University of New England authored an award winning article Armidale NSW, Australia in a peer-reviewed journal From Ronald (or " Roley") joined the 1982 to 1984 Ronald was joi nt University's faculty in 1979. editor of the Australian Journal of Previously he was a tenured lecturer Agricultural Economics. at Monash University and the Roley's project will be to enhance University of Newcastle, Australia. his professional skills in food policy Roley has earned both bachelor's analysis through evaluation of Indones ia 's current food price and master's degrees in agricultural economics at the University of New policies and alternative future England. In 1974, he was awarded pol icies. The project wi II be ca rried his doctor's degree in agricultural out in collaboration with staff of the prices, policy and marketing from Center for Agro-Economic Research Cornell University. in Bogor and at h is home un iversi ty, with primary funding support by the Roley has been an active member of Australian Centre for Internationa l numerous organizations, among Agricultura l Research. them the Australian Agricultural Economics Society and the International Development Program SATHYAPALA rural development programs in Sri PINNA[]UWAGE Lanka . He took a sabbatical leave to do research a nd teach at the International Institute for Aerial Senior Lecturer Survey and Earth Sciences in University of Peradeniya Holland. In 1985, Sathyapala was Peradeniya. Sri Lanka the recipient of a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Sathyapala received two master's Service for self-study. He spent this degrees and a doctor's degree from time in West Berlin at the Institut fur the University of Wisconsin at Agrarentwicklung studying the Madison. They were in agricultural "training and visit" system of economics, continuing and extension. vocational education, and development, respectively. His He is a member of the Agricultural postgraduate studies were funded Extension Group of the National through a fellowship from the Planning Division in Sri Lanka, and Agricultural Development Council. the National Agricultural Society of Prior to that, he obta i ned his Sri Lanka . bachelor's degree in agriculture Since Sathyapala's major interest from the University of Ceylon lies in availability and access to Sathyapala has taught in the food by all segments of the Department of Agricultural popu lation, he has selected as his Econom ics and Extension si nce project an evaluation of extension 1976. He is also a teacher at the programs and government Postgraduate Institute of interventions to improve food Agriculture Sathyapala has worked accessibility by the poorer groups of on several aspects of integrated people in Sri Lanka . NIlRBERTIl OLlEZAIlA

Director General with two W. K. Kellogg Foundation grants. Superior Institute of Agriculture (lSA) Santiago, Dominican Republic Norberto received his bachelor's degree from the joint college As director general. Norberto has program between the Superior been instrumental in promoting an Institute of Agriculture (ISA) and the active role for the Institute in Universidad Catalira Madre Ij Maestra in education, management and policy Santiago (UCMM) He acquired a discussions, and in development of diploma in management teaching a modest yet influential program of from the European Institute of research to identify and document Business Administration, agricultural problems in the Fountainebleu, France. Norberto Dominican Republic took a master's degree in Norberto serves as a board member agricultural economics from the of many organizations, including University of California at Davis. He the Association for Development, was awarded a doctoral degree in National Council of Agriculture, agricu Itural economics from Purdue Small Business Assistance Center University and the Animal Production His project will be a study of the Research and Improvement Center, agricu Itural marketi ng board all in Santiago Norberto was head (INESPRE) of the Dominican of the coordinating committee for Republic and its influence on price Plan Sierra, an integrated rural formation, trade and protection of development project in a local food supplies, and its role in mountainous area, funded partially orderly marketing YONY 5AMPAIO

Associate Professor Society (SOBER). For three years he Department of Economics/PIMES was coordinator of the economic Federal University of Pernambuco committee of the National Council Recife, Brazil for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) In addition to his teaching duties. Yony is vice-director of the College Yony was the recipient of the of Applied Social Sciences and was Guirnaraes Duque Prize for the best prior director of the graduate school socio-economic study published in of economics (PIMES) at the Federal northeast Brazil in the period University of Pernambuco. 1975-80, Prior to joining the faculty at the As his project. Yony will develop a university in 1973. Yony attended multidisciplinary evaluation of the the University of California at Davis. impact of a target subsidy program While a student there. he earned a coordinated by the Brazilian master of arts degree in economics. government in cooperation with the a master of science in agricultural private sector. economics and a doctoral degree in agricultural economics. In 1976. he was a visiting scholar at Oxford U nivers ity. England. Yony was one of the founders of the Brazilian Economists Society. and a former vice-president of the Brazilian Agricultural Economists science and another bachelor's with honors in food science. He acquired SAMUEL SEFA-[]E[]EH both his master's and doctor's degrees in food science from the University of Guelph, Canada, the Senior Lecturer latter of which was awarded in 1978. Universit!J of Ghana His teaching in the Department of Legon, Ghana Food Science and Nutrition covers Samuel has been with the food analysis, chemistry, University of Ghana since 1980. engineering and processing Samuel Earlier, he was a postdoctoral fellow has an on-going research program at the University of Guelph, and an on traditional food processing assistant scientist at the Ralston systems. His work in this area has Purina Company, St Louis, led to the development of a new Missouri. and simple process for making a high protein food for infant and Currently, he is president of the adult feed ing. He has recently Ghana Institute of Nutrition and completed research on the use of Food Technologists Samuel has sensory evaluation in marketing been instrumenta l in the organization of symposia, seminars As a food scientist in a developing and d~scussions on issues related country, Samuel's goals include to food utilization in Ghana . His integrating his scientific endeavors major interest is in developing with effective public service for the appropriate food technologies to benefit of the Ghanaian people improve the nutrition of rural His project wi" be a study of people. potential improvement in Samuel received a bachelor's traditional, rural. small-scale degree from the University of Ghana processing of cereals and legumes in biochemistry, nutrition and food in Ghana ALVARO SILVA

Cftairman- Alvaro has also served with the Agricultural Economics Department National Planning Department as Colombian Society of Agriculturists head of the Marketing Division Bogota, Colombia ( 1977-79), and later as head of th e Agricultural Planning Unit (1981-84) As chairman of th e agricultural From 1979-81, he was a resident economics department at the FAO marketing expert in Mexico. Colombian Society of Agriculturists (SAC), Alvaro is responsible for He has authored numerous reports formulating agricultural policies on food marketing analyses and and analyzing food marketing proposals for both short and long­ systems . In addition to these term strategies. Alvaro has travelled responsibilities, Alvaro is an extenSively to participate in agricultural policy professor at symposia and seminars focusing on National University at Bogota. food marketing.

Alvaro completed his undergraduate work in agronomy at National University In 1970 he was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship At Michigan State University, Alvaro earned a master of science degree in agricultural econom ics, a master of arts degree in economics, and a doctoral degree in agricultural economics . HIDAYAT 5YARIEF

Chairman serving as the University's Head of Department of Community Nutrition the Department of Agricultural and Family Resources Product Technology, Hidayat Institut Pertanian Bogor attended North Carolina State Bogor Agricultural University University on a USAID fellowship. In Bogor. Indonesia 1983, he was awarded his doctor's degree in food science and As chairman of the Department of statistical quality control . Community Nutrition and Family He is an active member of the Resources at the University, Hidayat Indonesian Nutritionists plays a major role in developing Association, Sigma Xi and the food and nutrition systems through Institute of Food Technologists. education, training, research and extension. Hidayat's artistic talent is displayed on the cover of th is broch ure, wh ich Hidayat is a member of the he designed while attending the University's academic committee and is helping to develop the KIFP/ FS Orientation Seminar. University Center in Food and Through evaluation and Nutrition, a new program at his development of national training institution. and research programs, Hidayat Hidayat earned his bachelor's sees the aim of his project to improve Indonesia's food and degree in food technology and master's degree in applied statistics nutrition system. at the Institut Perianian Bogor After JAMES TERI

Associate Professor Crops and the American Sokoine University of Agriculture Phytopathological Society He is a Morogoro, Tanzania team leader of a multidisciplinary group of scientists involved in bean Along with teaching undergraduate improvement and graduate students specialized courses in crop protection, lames is lames has authored and co­ a member of several boards and authored publications in the field of committees involved in shaping plant pathology policy at Sokoine University lames' study is aimed at an pertaining to research, teaching and examination of agricultural research extension. in Tanzania, paying particular lames was awarded a Senior attention to historical experience, Fulbright Fellowship for a organization and administration, sabbatical at Texas A&M University planning, programming and in 1982. He received both his resources. He will determine how master's and doctor's degrees in research can be more responsive to plant pathology and international the needs of the farming agriculture at Cornell University, community to improve their New York. He earned a bachelor's nutritional needs degree in agriculture from Makerere University, Uganda He is a member of the International Society for Tropical Root and Tuber DAVENDRA TYAGI

storage losses and a paper on farm Member Secretary~CACP prices and class bias in India. He Ministry of Agriculture and Rural has also worked as a consultant Development with the FAO. New Delhi, India Davendra has written extensively on Prior to his appointment as problems of Indian agriculture, member secretary of the particularly those having a bearing Commission for Agricultural Costs on price policy. He has published and Prices in 1985, Davendra was articles in various journals and has Director of the Commission for six also published/ co-authored three years. books including one on agricultural price policy in India. Davendra received his bachelor's degree in economics and statistics He maintains membership in the from Meerut College, India. He took Indian Society of Agricultural a master's degree in statistics from Economics and the International the Institute of Social Sciences in Association of Agricultural Agra, India before acquiring his Econom ists. doctorate in economics at Sardar Davendra's project will cover Patel University analysis of the effectiveness of Davendra spent one year as a India's current system of visiting fellow at the Institute of procurement and distribution of Development Studies, University of food grains He will also seek Sussex, which culminated in a economic alternatives to the report on farm level foodgrain problem of market glutting at the post-harvest season. degree in business administration TOMAS from the Harvard Business School in 1971 . In 1984, Tomas returned to URIBE-MOSOUERA academia as an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy Researcher School of Government at Harvard Fundacion Para La Educacion University, earning a master's Superior Y EI Desarrollo degree in public administration in (FEDESAROLLO) 1984. Tomas has just completed Bogota, Colombia one year as a visiti ng researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health Prior to joining FEDESAROLLO as a through the Takemi Program in researcher, Tomas has been an International Health. independent international consultant on food policy to many Tomas has published extensively on organizations and countries. From food and nutrition policy as well as, 1976-79, he was general director of at an earlier stage, on economics the National Food and Nutrition and finance. He has represented Plan (PAN) From 1973-76, he was Colombia as a member of its head of macroeconomic analysis in delegation at several international the National Planning Department. conferences. He also served as vice-president for Within his project, Tomas will study administration and development to the food consumption decisions of the Banco del Estado in Bogota. poor households both to test the Tomas earned two bachelor's nutritional rationality hypothesis, degrees from the Massachusetts and to identify opportunities for Institute of Technology in stimulating energy and nutrient mathematics and material sciences intake-through alternative income engineering. He received a master's transfer and price policies ISABEL VIAL [IE VALDES

Assistilnt Professor Isabel is currently involved in Institute of Nutrition research and field work action and Food Technology (lNTAI programs on nutrition intervention University of Chile programs for poor working mothers Santiago, Chile and heads of households. In the past she has developed programs Isabel acquired her formal training and worked with interdisciplinary in at the Catholic teams of specialists in this field in University in Santiago In 1978, she Colombia. Panama and Chile, Isabel attended American University, has extensive experience in policy Washington, DC, where she took reform in nutrition intervention courses in public health programs, administration, As her project, Isabel will Before joining the University of collaborate with Eugenia Muchnik Ch lie in 1983, Isabel was a in a study of nutrition and health consultant on nutritional surveys intervention programs for low for the Sigma One Corporation and income working mothers, the Research Triangle Institute. Specifically. they will study the North Carolina. From 1974-76, she effect on infant feeding systems and was a visiting professor and infant nutrition , They will also researcher at the Universidad del Valle evaluate an ongoing preschool in Cali. Colombia, nutrition intervention program WEN 51MEI

Lecturer He received his bachelor's degree in South China Agricultural University agricultural economics from the Guangzhou, China Southwestern Agricultural University in Chongqing, China. In Along with teaching various courses 1985, Simei received a master's in agricultural economics at the degree in economic development university, Wen is working with and public policy from Cornell colleagues on projections for University agricultural development in China in the year 2000. Wen has authored a textbook on agricultural marketing and price Wen is primarily concerned with analysis and a textbook on micro-issues of agricultural econometrics. development, the development and dissemination of new technology, For his project. he will conduct a and the changing structure and comparative study of governmental organization of households in food pol icies before and after 1978, China. In addition, he is interested and policy alternatives needed to in the effects of macro price policy improve food production in China. on food systems. Wen is an active member of the Guangdong Association of Agricultural Economics and the National Association of Agricu Itural Economics of China. EPHREM WHINGWIRI

Head- After earning both a bachelor's and Agronomy Institute master's degree in crop science Ministry of Lands, Agriculture from the University of Zimbabwe, and Rural Resettlement Ephrem received a doctoral degree Harare, Zimbabwe from the University of Western Australia, in 1980. As head of the Agronomy Institute. Ephrem intends to initiate a Ephrem plans and implements comprehensive program to expand agronomic research programs on various crops He has developed a soybean production a nd uti I ization large on-farm experimentation by communal farmers in a region of program designed to elucidate and Zimbabwe with high production resolve production constraints potentiaL faced by small-scale farmers. On several occasions he has represented his country at various conferences and workshops on agronomy and agriculture Ephrem is assistant editor of the Zimbabwe Agriculture Journal, as well as being a member of the Crop Science Society of Zimbabwe and the Public Service Association. YAN RUI-ZHEN

Professor system and the agricultural People's University of China response. Be;;ing, China From 1981 to 1982, Van did research In addition to his teaching duties, on a comparative analysis project at Van is vice-chairman and secretary­ the International Development general of the China Association of Center of Japan . Agricultural Economics. He is also a For his project. Van will concentrate senior research fellow of the State on the development and adoption Council Research Center for Rural of agricultural technology to meet Development in the People's the future food needs of China. Republic of China and the editor-in­ chief of the Journal of Problems of Agricultural Economics. Prior to postgraduate work in agricultural economics at the People's University of China, Van was graduated in 1952 from Nanking University, majoring in agricultural economics. Van has published extensively in the area of economic reform in rural China, including books and papers on the production-responsi bi I ity

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