Journal of Food Processing & Technology

Amaka Odenigbo

Biography

 Marian Amaka Odenigbo is a registered nutritionist and special adviser on nutrition-sensitive agriculture in IFAD's East and Southern Africa (ESA) Division. She is leading and managing nutrition mainstreaming in ESA programmes and strengthening ESA's position on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and rural development.  Before joining ESA, she provided technical support to Policy and Technical Advisory Division (PTA), IFAD on nutrition-sensitive agriculture. Her PhD in human nutrition focuses on community health nutrition, food consumption pattern, assessment of nutritional values and glycaemic indices of traditional foods. She has led the management of nutrition component in a multinational rice postharvest project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency on enhancing food security in Africa from 2011-2013 at McGill University, Canada. As a senior lecturer at the University of Agriculture in Nigeria, she had teaching and research experiences , supervised community projects and have over 30 international and national scientific publications. In her current capacity as IFAD special adviser on nutrition, she collaborated with FAO on the consensus meeting for selection of minimum dietary diversity indicator for women. She also participated in the joint work of the Rome based UN food agencies (IFAD, FAO, WFP) on selection of  targets and indicators in contribution to the discussions on post-2015 development agenda  for sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition.  Marian ensures IFAD’s active participation in UN Nutrition Working Groups in Malawi and Zambia for the reflection of IFAD priorities and actions towards the SUN movement initiatives Governments Development Strategies.

Research Interest

 Food Security, food nutrition, Food production