Christopher Bryant has almost 50 years of research experience in peri-urban agriculture (France, Canada and other countries) and 26 years research experience in adaptation of agriculture to climate change and variability as well as 30 years’ experience in community development. He was a Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo for 20 years and Professor in Géographie, Université de Montréal for 24 years. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Food Security and Food Safety

Dr. Eihab Fathelrahman is the chair of the department of agribusiness and consumer sciences, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). He is an assistant professor teaching undergraduate and Ph.D. courses in global food supply chain management, food sustainability and health, agricultural and natural resource economics among other courses. Currently, Dr. Eihab research focuses on the economics of food security in UAE considering the fisheries sector and precision agriculture for forage production. Before joining UAEU, Dr. Fathelrahman worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, Washington State University and the U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Energy Laboratory, and the National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC) in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He was actively involved at the World Bank on the economics of climate change adaptations in West Africa initiative and the World Bank for climate Change global track project. He published over thirty articles and books chapters on applied risk management for agriculture, agricultural sustainability, food trade.

Risk Management for Agriculture, Agricultural Sustainability, Food Trade

Rudra Bahadur Shrestha, PhD in Agricultural Economics from the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan in 2015, and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) in 2009. Dr. Rudra has long and extensive experiences (20 years) in many institutions with different capacities. Recently, he devotes as a Senior Agricultural Economist for the Government of Nepal and responsible for formulating policies and programs, developing projects, cooperation and coordination with donors and international communities (for example, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, EU, FAO, UNDP, IFPRI, USAID, JICA, SDC, Danida, etc.) on multidimensional aspects of agricultural development in Nepal. Dr. Rudra has also been serving as a Visiting Professor for Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, and Business Management in the Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam and the Purbanchal University, Nepal. He has published dozens of papers related to agriculture efficiency, agricultural marketing and trade, food security and poverty in impact factor peer reviewed journals, and also serving as editor and reviewer in many journals. Dr. Rudra has been involving in different professional organizations; Secretary General for Nepalese Agricultural Economics Society, Advisor for Global Food Security Strategy-USAID Nepal, National Adviser for Peace Corps Volunteer Program-Nepal, and Member for National Project Steering Committees of different donor funded projects. The research interest of Dr. Rudra are agriculture productivity growth, technology change and efficiency analysis, agriculture commercialization, trade and competitiveness, and cross-cutting issues of agriculture with food and nutrition security, and poverty reduction of smallholders in developing countries.

Agricultural and Food Economics.

Kingsley Osei has a PhD from the University of Reading, UK (2007). He has 2 MSc degrees from the Royal University of Ghent, Belgium (1999) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2001). Dr. Osei is a Principal Research Scientist with the CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI), Kumasi, Ghana. He is a Senior Lecturer in Plant Nematology at the CSIR-College of Science and Technology in Kumasi and currently, the Head of the Plant Health Division of CRI. He has published 35 peer reviewed journal papers, 2 books and 7 manuals. His rich experience in research led to his leading several international projects including BMGF funded YIIFSWA (Country Manager-2014-15) and CAY-Seed (Regional Coordinator). His research interest covers “The employment of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approaches, the use of antagonistic plants and organic amendments in the management of plant parasitic nematodes, host resistance studies and the application of molecular tools in research”.

Food Security, Poverty and Sustainability

Huada Daniel Ruan, Dual PhD, Professor and Founding Head of the Department of Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). Prof. Ruan earned his first PhD in Mineralogy from The University of Western Australia, and second PhD in Chemistry from Queensland University of Technology. He has a background in chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science, and biological science with more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research in Australia, the U.S., Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, and published more than 110 articles. Prof. Ruan is the pioneer researcher established non-point water pollution index in Australia, found and confirmed that 0.02 ppm of phosphorus is the critical value of water eutrophication. His research achievement also include mineral chemistry at Queensland University of Technology, Australia that contributed to a significant increase (2-5%) in the extraction of alumina from bauxite; the bio-chemical remediation of contaminated soils at Purdue University U.S.A. had contributed to the stabilization of heavy metals Cr and Pb biologically and chemically; participation in air pollution monitoring, indoor air quality, food safety and labeling, electronic waste treatment and certification in Hong Kong. He has been invited to be the Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia, Visiting Professor, South China Agricultural University, Visiting Research Professor, Research Institute of Ecology and Soil Science, Guangdong Academy of Science, Honorary Consultant, Hong Kong Institute of Environmentalist, Vice Chairman of the Environmental Subcommittee, Hong Kong Association of Testing, Inspection and Certification， Jury Member of Court, Queensland, Australia， Zhuhai City Committee Member of Emergency Management. He is a Certified Auditor of ISO9001 and ISO14001, editor/reviewer of a number of international journals and an active member of a number of international professional associations.

water pollution index,stabilization of heavy metals,pollution monitoring, indoor air quality, food safety and labeling, electronic waste treatment.

Devi Prasad Juvvadi is Director (Agriculture Management) at Centre for Good Governance (CGG), Hyderabad, India. Earlier he was Team Leader and M&E specialist to A.P. Community Based Tank Management project in minor irrigation of Andhra Pradesh funded by World Bank. He worked as Lead Consultant. SPIU (Agriculture) with CGG and involved in change and delivery projects, capacity building and change management programmes to various government departments under Delivery of Improved Services in Administration (DISA), a DFID supported programme. He served as Member, Board of Management, A.P. Horticultural University. In the decades of eighties, Mr. Prasad worked as Asst. Professor (Soil Science) with American University of Beirut and adjunct to teaching and research programmes in Saudi Arabia for about 10 years. He was Consultant to many agriculture projects in several countries in the Middle East and Europe. He returned to India in early nineties and associated with finance and industrial activity and moved to NGO sector as Consultant and conducted various studies in agricultural and rural development to UN, Netherlands and Swiss, funded projects. He has been a trainer, resource person and consultant to many organizations including EPTRI, EEI, SAMETI, APWELL, APIDC, SBI, MIDHANl, DANIDA, BHEL, DMRL, DRDL etc. He has authored and co-authored peer reviewed articles and published bulletins, contributed to news papers on agriculture and presented papers in various national and international conferences. His areas of interest include Agricultural Governance, Risk Management in Agriculture, ICT use in agriculture, Capacity building and Change management in agriculture. Mr. Prasad travelled widely in over 24 countries in Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Asia including Pakistan.

Horticulture, Soil Science

Manuela Zoninsein has been passionate about food and sustainability since working on the commodities exchange at the Chicago Board of Trade at age 18.She established AgVali, the first marketplace platform connecting suppliers of best-in-class agricultural inputs with the largest network of qualified agricultural distributors in emerging markets, initiated in Brazil, in order to enable farmers to discover suitable new products and to dictate the market for agriculture products. Prior to AgVali, Manuela launched Smart Agriculture Analytics,a data subscription service that tracked the market opportunity for world-leading agricultural solutions in China. She created SAA’s first product in while studying at Tsinghua University on a Blakemore Fellowship. Manuela was both an environment correspondent and a food writer, reporting for the Engineering News-Record and ClimateWire as well as serving as dining editor for Time Out Beijing. She first moved to Beijing with a Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship in 2007, reporting for Newsweek, where she built the magazine's first blog, the Engineering News-Record, where she was the inaugural China correspondent, and serving as Asia bureau chief for Dell computers to launch takeyourownpath.cn, a platform selling technology to SMEs, in Mandarin. Manuela has degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and studied Mandarin at Tsinghua and National Taiwan University on a Blakemore Fellowship and Huayu Scholarship.

Agriculture

Olive is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Nutrition & Food Science at Cal Poly Pomona. With more than twenty years’ experience of research, teaching, and industrial services across the USA, Canada, and China, Olive has acquired a good overview of the field of Food Science & Engineering, and particularly strong expertise in a specialized area of novel food ingredient delivery technologies for applications in fortified and functional foods. This international, multidisciplinary background enables her to interact with professionals in a wide variety of related fields. Olive has also been selected to receive one of the IFT’s Prestigious Achievement Awards – W. K. Kellogg Award for International Food Security during 2014 IFT Annual Meeting.

Olive yao li\'s research areas include Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources by recycling and repurposing agro-food by products and wastes for value-added food or feed applications, microencapsulation and nanotechnology. Specifically she intends to develop novel ingredient systems/technologies for effective delivery of micronutrients and nutraceuticals through fortified and/or functional foods.

Prof. Tahlim Sudaryanto, Ph.D is Senior Agricultural Economist at the Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy Studies (ICASEPS), Ministry of Agriculture, the Republic of Indonesia. He has recently completed his term as Assistant Minister for International Cooperation in the Ministry of Agriculture. Prior to his current position, he has held the following positions in the Ministry: Director, Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy Studies; Director, Bureau of Planning and Finance; Executive Secretary, Directorate General of Food Crop Production and; Executive Secretary, Agency for Agricultural Research and Development. During his career, he has also served as lecturer, advisory committee on thesis and dissertation research in both undergraduate and graduate program of several universities. As official of the Ministry of Agriculture, he has participated as delegation on WTO negotiation, various committees and council meetings at the OECD, G20, FAO, UN-ESCAP, APEC, ASEAN forums, and other bilateral meetings. Since January 2014 he has served as a member Board of Trustees, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. In 2015 he serves as Commissioner at the Second Murdoch Commission on Food Security, Trade and Partnership, Murdoch University, Australia. In 2013-2014 he also served as a member of International Advisory Committee, Food&Business Global Challenges Program, Netherland Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherland. During 2006-2010 he was as a member of the Technical Committee, United Nation-Center for the Alleviation of Poverty through Sustainable Agriculture (UN-CAPSA), Bogor, Indonesia.

Tahlim Sudaryanto’s research interest include food policy, agricultural trade, and rural economy

Sun Bo is currently a Professor,Director of Yingtan Red Soil Ecological Research Station (National Agro-ecosystem Observation and Research Station in Yingtan); and Deputy director of Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation of Ministry of Agriculture since 2011;For the year 2004- 2008 he has also served as Director of Soil Sub-Center, Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN), CAS. There are 46 SCI papers, 7 EI papers, 150 journal papers in Chinese and 5 where he has given his contribution which includes Microbialmediation of biogeochemical cycles revealed by simulation of global changes with soil transplant and cropping ,Balance and Management of Nutrients in Agro-ecosystems in China etc.

Sun Bo’s Research Interests include: Soil degradation and ecological rehabilitation to improve the sustainability of grain production systems, Carbon and nitrogen cycling in agro-ecosystems and its optimized management along the climatic transects and key coordinative mechanisms in soil-root-microbe systems to improve nitrogen and phosphorus utilization.

Professor Munashe Shoko is the Former Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences at Great Zimbabwe University and is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty. He obtained his Ph.D. (Agronomy) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He started his university teaching career in the Faculty of Agriculture, Africa University Zimbabwe in 2003 and left for Great Zimbabwe University as Founding Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 2011. Professor Shoko has more than 52 publications. Prof Shoko is an external examiner for 4 local and 3 external universities. He is a reviewer of 8 Scientific Journals. Prof Shoko sits on three Boards for private organisations in Zimbabwe.

Munashe Shoko’s research areas include: Soil Fertility Management, Crop rotations and climate change.

Fanuel Kapute is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries Science at Mzuzu University, Malawi where he is also the Head of Department. He is a reviewer to several international journals and has several publications in peer reviewed journals including a Handbook published by VDM Verlag, in Germany (ISBN 978-3-639-33844-7) which is used in the teaching of Fish Processing and Quality Management at undergraduate level. His recent published book is titled “Quality & Risk Assessment of Whole Fresh Lake Malawi Tilapia (Chambo) published by Lambert Academic Publishing. He has also carried out many consultancy assignments both local international including a three year competitive grant scheme funding from the government of Norway to implement an integrated fish farming project in southern Malawi in 2008.

Fanuel Kapute's current research fields include:fish processing and quality management

Xia Ying, is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Agricultural Economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS) by training, received her Bachelor degree in Agricultural Economy and Management (1985) from Agricultural Economy Department of JiLin Agricultural University, China, her MS degree in Agricultural Economy and Management (1988) from Graduation Department of Heilongjiang Academy of Social Science, China and her PhD in Agricultural Economy and Management (1998) from Graduation school of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Employment Record Research Fellow(1989-1996) Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development (IAED),CAAS Associate Professor(1996-2004) Vice Director IAED,CAAS, Director of Division of Industrial and Enterprise Economics(2001-2009) Senior Research Fellow(2005-present) Director the Cooperative Guidance Experts(2009 to Now) IAED,CAAS, Director of Division of Poverty and Development(2009-2010) Director of Division of Rural Development(2011) Rrural Work Committee of Beijing Municipal People’s Government The Engineering Construction Project Evaluation Experts Ministry of Agriculture

cooperative economy, agricultural enterprises, poverty alleviation and development , rural finance and the agricultural insurance and so on

Zengqi Peng, PhD, a professor in Nanjing Agricultural University and National Center of Meat Quality and Safety Control, majors in meat science. He devotes himself to the green manufacture technology (GMT) for processed meat in recent years. He hosts and attends more than 10 projects including National Key Technology Support Program, National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Technology R&D Program since 2003. He is the laureate of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress in 2013, the award of the Chinese Association of Animal Products Processing in 2014, the award of the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association in 2015, which are about GMT and its application of traditional processed meat.

Meat processing and quality control; food safety control; meat science; storage and processing of Aquatic; green manufacture technology; protein gelation and emulsion.

Dr. Gamal Fouad Mohamed , Researcher Professor at department of Food industries, division of the food industry and nutrition at the National Research Center. Graduation (1978) , faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University. Master's degree in Food Science (1991) and Ph. D. in Food Science (1997). Co-principal investigator in three research projects funded by the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research, Egypt. Participation in other seven research projects in the field of food technology, participate in ten international and local scientific conferences. Participation in seven scientific seminars and workshops. Giving twelve training courses to assess the quality of the food at National Research Center, Egypt. Attend three training courses in the field of food microbiological analysis in (Instituto del frio), of the Supreme Council for Scientific Research in Madrid, Spain and the use of scanning technology by the computer to assess the quality of food. Get three times the award for the best scientific research of the scientific society for Food Industries. Give training courses in the field of quality and safety of food products for workers in many food factories in Egypt. Reviewer a number of international journals in the field of food science. A member of the Food Science and Technology Association. A member of the scientific society for Food Industries, faculty of agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt. Scientific missions to Spain (6), China (1) and Syria (1) and Turkey (1). Published (36) research papers in international journals in the field of food science and Technology.

Food quality and development, Food safety, good manufacturing practices, Food science and nutrition, food products processing, Food security and risk assessment, Bio-active compounds (antioxidants and antimicrobials), Food chemistry and Food preservation .

Huada Daniel Ruan, Dual PhD, Professor and Founding Head of the Department of Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). Prof. Ruan earned his first PhD in Mineralogy from The University of Western Australia, and second PhD in Chemistry from Queensland University of Technology. He has a background in chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science, and biological science with more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research in Australia, the U.S., Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, and published more than 110 articles. Prof. Ruan is the pioneer researcher established non-point water pollution index in Australia, found and confirmed that 0.02 ppm of phosphorus is the critical value of water eutrophication. His research achievement also include mineral chemistry at Queensland University of Technology, Australia that contributed to a significant increase (2-5%) in the extraction of alumina from bauxite; the bio-chemical remediation of contaminated soils at Purdue University U.S.A. had contributed to the stabilization of heavy metals Cr and Pb biologically and chemically; participation in air pollution monitoring, indoor air quality, food safety and labeling, electronic waste treatment and certification in Hong Kong. He has been invited to be the Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia, Visiting Professor, South China Agricultural University, Visiting Research Professor, Research Institute of Ecology and Soil Science, Guangdong Academy of Science, Honorary Consultant, Hong Kong Institute of Environmentalist, Vice Chairman of the Environmental Subcommittee, Hong Kong Association of Testing, Inspection and Certification， Jury Member of Court, Queensland, Australia， Zhuhai City Committee Member of Emergency Management. He is a Certified Auditor of ISO9001 and ISO14001, editor/reviewer of a number of international journals and an active member of a number of international professional associations.

water pollution index,stabilization of heavy metals,pollution monitoring, indoor air quality, food safety and labeling, electronic waste treatment.

Dr. Hampson has broad experience as a scientist and professor. With a B.S. in Genetics and Human Development, a M.S. in Aquatic Biology and a doctorate degree in Food Science/Microbiology he has worked as a scientist for the USDA Agriculture Research Service and McCormick Corporation. As a Professor of Food Science, Dr. Hampson taught subjects such as food quality assurance, food safety, food product development, food processing, wine and fermented foods, and food biotechnology. During his tenure he received research funding from entities such as the USDA, the State of California, Air Liquide, BOC Gases, Coca Cola, and others. Early in life he worked his way through school employed in the retail food industry. Currently, Dr. Hampson is retired from teaching and is involved in craft distillation and Spirulina food production. It is the latter topic on which he plans to speak.

Food Science, food quality assurance, food safety, food product development, food processing, wine and fermented foods, and food biotechnology

Dr. Goodman is a Research Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, in the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in August, 2004. His PhD was earned in Dairy Science at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH in 1990. He trained in Immunology at Cornell University as a Postdoc and the University of Michigan in Pulmonary. He was an Allergen Program Manager at Monsanto from 1997-2004. He manages the www.AllergenOnline.org database for risk assessment of novel food proteins and is Chair of the WHO/IUIS Allergen Nomenclature Subcommittee. (16 August, 2016).

food Allergy, Food Science and Technology

I'm a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a PhD in Agricultural Economics and a Master's degree in Economics from Western Illinois University. I have conducted research on Development Economics specifically on issues regarding Food Security in Developing Countries. My professional experience includes research positions for Oxfam America and Oklahoma City Water Utility.

Agriculture, Food Science etc.

El-Sayed El-Tanboly has completed his PhD in Food Science in 1991 from the Academy of Sciences, Poland. He is currently a Professor and Consultant for development of projects and product quality food industries, the Division of Food and Nutrition at the National Center for Research in Cairo. He was an Executive Director for many research projects and development and quality of food products in Egyptian industries and published more than 50 scientific papers in the food industries in the journals.

Food Quality, Food Science,Food Security

Christopher Bryant received his doctorate in 1970 from the London School of Economics and Political Science when he was 24 years old. His research has been focused on: periurban agriculture and its relationships with cities for almost 50 years; the adaptation of agriculture to climate change and variability (25 years); and local and community development (30 years), with extensive publications and communications in all three domains.. He has been a professor at the University of Waterloo and the University of Montreal, and is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Montreal and Guelph.

food quality,Food security etc.

Moses Adjei is an MPhil candidate at the university of Bergen, Norway. He was awarded the Norwegian government Quota scholarship in 2015 after his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Ghana-legon, where he obtained first class honours. He has keen interest in natural resource governance, particularly fisheries governance as well as food security issues.

Natural resource governance,fisheries governance ,food security

Laura Kahn is pursuing her master’s in Data Science from Indiana University with a passion for using data to reduce hunger and poverty using technology. She has volunteered with various local hunger alleviation nonprofit groups.

Food Security, Machine Learning, Data Mining.

Steve Worth is Associate Professor: Extension and Rural Resource Management and Academic Leader: Teaching and Learning in the School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. He is also the Director of the African Centre for Food Security at UKZN. Whether in the classroom, the field or the boardroom, Steve brings two things to the table: engaging creativity; and nearly 40 years' experience as a practitioner, trainer, facilitator and academic in Africa. For 13 years he worked in rural development amongst the Batswana in the rural areas of the now North West province of South Africa. There he was engaged in agricultural economics, agricultural extension, community development and rural enterprise development. For over 15 years he has consulted with international agencies including the FAO of the United Nations and the Spirit of Africa Institute, and with South African agencies including the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Institute of Natural Resources, the Farmer Support Group, the University of Mpumalanga, the South African Bahá’í Office of Social and Economic Development, and National and Provincial Departments of Agriculture and Land Affairs on various aspects of human capacity development, policy development, wealth creation, rural development, agricultural extension, agricultural education and rural enterprise development. This work has taken him to Botswana, DR Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe as well as all over South Africa. Since 2001, he has been serving fulltime as an academic involved in teaching, research and community in agricultural extension and resource management, curriculum development, community development, rural wealth creation and sustainable livelihoods. Using an experiential learning framework for his lectures and workshops, Steven, will tell his ‘students’ two things up front: He does not believe in solving problems; and he will not take responsibility for your learning. The result: Classes that are hugely popular and highly transformative. More recently he has been involved in governance of teaching and learning and in developing programmes in Food Security. Over the years Steven has developed and presented numerous training programmes for agricultural, rural and community development and personal transformation. He has co-authored and edited training manuals and books with the FAO. He has been the principal author of several agricultural-related policies and strategies – particularly in agricultural extension and agricultural education. He is an experienced facilitator, employing creative methods to engage participants, manage potential conflict and elicit practical outcomes from workshops.

Food Security, Environmental science,Agriculture

Dr. Griffiths G. Atungulu is an Assistant Professor of Grain Process Engineering in the Food Science Department at the University Of Arkansas Division Of Agriculture. Griffiths’ education has been in agricultural engineering with research specialization in grains process engineering. He holds Bachelors of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Iwate University, Japan. Following his graduation, he worked as a research engineer at Kyushu University in Japan on a Japanese Society of Promotion of Sciences fellowship. He has conducted post-doctorate research at both Iwate University in Japan and at the University of CA at Davis, where he also held the position as a Project Engineer on the faculty there before joining the University Of Arkansas Division Of Agriculture as an Assistant Professor. Griffiths has worked in various aspects of grain processing in the past. At present, his program is focused on engineering effective strategies to maintain grain quality and prevent mycotoxin development. These researches include development of novel techniques for detection, decontamination and detoxification of harmful grain molds and mycotoxin, study of kinetics of grain quality degradation and mold/mycotoxin development during on-farm in-bin drying/storage, mathematical modeling and optimization of grain drying /storage systems, and grain processing byproduct utilization

grains process engineering,grains process engineering.

Mutasin Zeanalabdeen Algadi, PhD in Food chemistry from the Khartoum University, Sudan in 2015, and master’s degree in Food chemistry from the University of the Khartoum University, Sudan in 2007. Dr. Mutasin has long and extensive experiences (15 years) in many institutions with different capacities. Dr. Mutasin has also been serving as a Visiting Professor for Biochemical research, Activity determination, inhibition studies, assay development in the Neurochemi Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published dozens of papers related to articles about the fermentation of foods, food safety, food security and Arab Journal of Food & Nutrition and reviewer in many journals. The research interest of Dr. Mutasin are Food & Nutrition, technology change and efficiency analysis, food safety, fermentation of foods, and food and nutrition security in developing countries.

Food Safety

Rudra Bahadur Shrestha, PhD in Agricultural Economics from the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan in 2015, and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) in 2009. Dr. Rudra has long and extensive experiences (20 years) in many institutions with different capacities. Recently, he devotes as a Senior Agricultural Economist for the Government of Nepal and responsible for formulating policies and programs, developing projects, cooperation and coordination with donors and international communities (for example, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, EU, FAO, UNDP, IFPRI, USAID, JICA, SDC, Danida, etc.) on multidimensional aspects of agricultural development in Nepal. Dr. Rudra has also been serving as a Visiting Professor for Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, and Business Management in the Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam and the Purbanchal University, Nepal. He has published dozens of papers related to agriculture efficiency, agricultural marketing and trade, food security and poverty in impact factor peer reviewed journals, and also serving as editor and reviewer in many journals. Dr. Rudra has been involving in different professional organizations; Secretary General for Nepalese Agricultural Economics Society, Advisor for Global Food Security Strategy-USAID Nepal, National Adviser for Peace Corps Volunteer Program-Nepal, and Member for National Project Steering Committees of different donor funded projects. The research interest of Dr. Rudra are agriculture productivity growth, technology change and efficiency analysis, agriculture commercialization, trade and competitiveness, and cross-cutting issues of agriculture with food and nutrition security, and poverty reduction of smallholders in developing countries.

Agricultural Economics

Dr. Eihab Fathelrahman is the chair of the department of agribusiness and consumer sciences, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). He is an assistant professor teaching undergraduate and Ph.D. courses in global food supply chain management, food sustainability and health, agricultural and natural resource economics among other courses. Currently, Dr. Eihab research focuses on the economics of food security in UAE considering the fisheries sector and precision agriculture for forage production. Before joining UAEU, Dr. Fathelrahman worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, Washington State University and the U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Energy Laboratory, and the National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC) in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He was actively involved at the World Bank on the economics of climate change adaptations in West Africa initiative and the World Bank for climate Change global track project. He published over thirty articles and books chapters on applied risk management for agriculture, agricultural sustainability, food trade.

Risk Management for Agriculture, Agricultural Sustainability, Food Trade

Christopher Bryant has almost 50 years of research experience in peri-urban agriculture (France, Canada and other countries) and 26 years research experience in adaptation of agriculture to climate change and variability as well as 30 years’ experience in community development. He was a Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo for 20 years and Professor in Géographie, Université de Montréal for 24 years. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, Canada.

food quality,Food security etc.

Zengqi Peng, PhD, a professor in Nanjing Agricultural University and National Center of Meat Quality and Safety Control, majors in meat science. He devotes himself to the green manufacture technology (GMT) for processed meat in recent years. He hosts and attends more than 10 projects including National Key Technology Support Program, National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Technology R&D Program since 2003. He is the laureate of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress in 2013, the award of the Chinese Association of Animal Products Processing in 2014, the award of the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association in 2015, which are about GMT and its application of traditional processed meat.

Meat processing and quality control; food safety control; meat science; storage and processing of Aquatic; green manufacture technology; protein gelation and emulsion.