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Dr.Mpoko BOKANGA is the first Executive Director of the Nairobi-based African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), the new organisation whose aim is to access and disseminate proprietary technologies for use by smallholder farmers to increase agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Bokanga is a food scientist with a master’s degree (MSc) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a doctorate degree (PhD) from Cornell University both in the USA. He is a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has had a 13 years career in Nigeria, working as a Research Scientist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for 12 years (1989-2002) where he was heading the root crops utilization program and was Coordinator of the Postharvest Systems Improvement project; from 2003 to 2004, he was Industrial Development Officer (Agro-Industries) at the Regional Industrial Development Centre of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Abuja, Nigeria. His other career achievements were in the United States of America where he started his professional career as a Research Associate with Westreco Inc., a Nestlé Research Company based in New Milford, Connecticut in 1989, where he worked on immobilized microbial and enzyme systems and developed a system for removing bitter tasting peptides from protein hydrolysates used in food formulations; from 2002 to 2003 he was a Visiting Professor of Food Science at the Alabama A & M University
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