Prof. (Mrs.) Faustina Dufie Wireko-Manu

Associate Professor


Dept: Food Science and Technology
Department of Food Science and Technology,
College of Science Building
Room B06

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Research Areas/Interests

RESEARCH AREA Food compositional studies  Value addition to agricultural produce Food product development Food quality studies (nutr...~more

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Grants/Funds Awarded

RESEARCH /PROJECT GRANTS

1. Okuafo Pa Project with sponsorship from ENI Ghana Exploration and Production Limited for youth training titled “market-focused training in agricultural value chain for youth empowerment and job creation in Ghana. Total grant sum of Six Hundred and Nineteen thousand, Eight Hundred US Dollars ($ 619, 800), 2019-Date.

2. Purdue Improved Crops Storage (PICS) 3 Project, a sub contract project with sponsorship from Bill and Melinda Gate to train two Master (Mphil) students at KNUST in Ghana. Research grant sum of Twenty Thousand ($ 20,000), 2016-2019.

3. DANIDA-KNUST Root and Tuber Value Chains Project with grant sum close to a million-dollar (~$1000,000) from DANIDA, 2013-2017 IITA-McGill-KNUST title: Improving quality, nutrition and health: impacts of inclusion of HQCF in bread formulations in West African (Ghana and Nigeria). Research gran sum of Seventeen Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-One US Dollars ($17,545), 2014-2017.

4.  IITA-McGill-KNUST title: Improving quality, nutrition and health: impacts of inclusion of HQCF in bread formulations in West African (Ghana and Nigeria). Research gran sum of

Seventeen Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-One US Dollars ($17,545), 2014-2016

4. Improved Yam Storage for Income and Food Security in Ghana. AUSAID sponsorship of three hundred and seventy-five thousand U.S dollars ($375,000). Leader of food value addition work package in the project, 2013-2015. Micronutrient Composition of Ghanaian Green Leafy Vegetables and Impact of Cooking Methods. A competitive research attachment at the Institút National de la Recherche Agronomiqu? (INRA), Avignon in France with sponsorship from AWARD and Agropolis Fondation, 2013-2014. Sustainable production and utilization of yam project with sponsorship from the Netherland Government. Associate Professional Officer responsible for food quality assessment of yam, ] 2004-2007.

 

Travel Grants

  1. Travel grant for a number of conferences in USA, China and Denmark by DANIDA Root and Tuber Value Chain Project 2013-2017.
  2. Australia Award Fellow Travel grant to University of Sydney for a month training titled “Improving Agricultural Productivity Through Increasing the Impact of Agricultural Research in Africa” from 27 April 2015 to 27 May 2015.
  3. AWARD Travel grants for Research Proposal Writing Course, 19-25th February 2012 , Kenya
  4. AWARD Travel grant for Women’s Leadership and Management Course-August 19-25, 2012, Kenya
  5. Travel grant by Netherlands Government through Sustainable production and utilization of yam project to attend 1st International Chester Food Science & Technology Conference, University of Chester, UK, April 11-13, 2007, HACCP on new product development workshop and Sensory evaluation workshop, Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA), UK, February 21 to March 1, 2007.


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