Professor Lateef Sanni, the new elected Deputy Vice Chancellor Development |
The
Cassava Adding Value for Africa Phase II Project Country Manager for Nigeria, Prof.
Lateef Sanni Oladimeji, has emerged as Deputy Vice Chancellor
Development of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta . This was announced during the Special Senate meeting held at the
Senate Chamber of the University on Tuesday 7th November 2017.
Prof.
Lateef Sanni before his appointment was the Dean, College of Food Science and
Human Ecology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. In a keenly
contested election with Professor A.A.A Agboola of Mathematics Department, he
emerged as the winner with 105 vote as against the latter with 15 votes. Prof.
Sanni also happens to be the first Alumnus to become a Deputy Vice Chancellor
Development of the University.
Prof. Lateef Oladimeji SANNI graduated
from the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta with Bachelor of Science degree;
Second Class Upper Division in the Department of Food Science and Technology in
1990. He obtained Master and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degrees at the
Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan in February, 1993 and
April, 1999 respectively. He joined the University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta (UNAAB) in 1993 as Assistant Lecturer and became Professor of Food
Science and Technology in 2008. Prof. Sanni
became the First Alumnus to bag PhD, Professor, and now Deputy Vice Chancellor
Development of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.
He has published over 72 Technical Journal articles; over 25 Books, and over
26 Conference proceedings. Prof. Sanni has over
20 years' experience in research, consultancy and collaborations as a
postharvest expert on tropical root crops mostly in West Africa coupled with
missions to Latin America, Asia, Europe and other parts of Africa mostly
implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Root Crop and Natural
Resources Institute, UK, respectively.
He had received academic awards and research
grants (either singly or as partner) from International donors such as World
Bank, International Foundation for Science, Sweden, Department for
International Development, European Union and Gates Foundation.
The CAVA II Project Director, Prof. Kolawole Adebayo and
the entire CAVA team congratulates Prof. Lateef Sanni, the CAVA II Nigeria
Country Manager on his new appointment as
the Deputy Vice Chancellor Development for the University.
Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (CAVA II) is a project
led by the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, working closely
with Natural Resources Institute of University of Greenwich, United
Kingdom; Food Research Institute Ghana; Tanzania Food and Nutrition Center,
Tanzania; Africa Innovations Institute, Uganda; Chancellor College, University
of Malawi alongside several partners.
The project aims to increase the incomes of at least
200,000 value chain actors, especially smallholder farmers and processors in
Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi, by at least USD177 million in five
years. This will be achieved through stimulating sales of more than two million
tons of cassava into HQCF and other cassava product value chains.
The premise of the CAVA II project is that if new markets
for cassava can be developed and smallholders linked to them at scale, then
farmers will increase their incomes and adopt new productivity enhancing
technologies. The project intends to work across the value-added cassava
chain, specifically focusing on a number of bottlenecks that have slowed growth
and progress from previous projects:
The
project works directly with farmers to improve profitability of cassava sales,
both through the pull of market demand and through increasing farmer yields
with improved stems.
Congrats to Prof Sanni, our foremost alumnus.
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