Prof. Francis Appiah

Associate Professor


Dept: Horticulture
Department of Horticulture
KNUST
Kumasi
Ghana

Send quick mail

Research Areas/Interests

Postharvest Technology and Management, Commodity System Value Chain Assessment, Consumer Studies, Food Production and Manufacturing Systems, Hazard An...~more


Positions Held & Hold

International

  1. Principal Investigator (Ghana) and Team Member: Converting Cassava leaves into marketable food ingredients: A bioeconomy-based approach for improving livelihood and nutrition in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. Collaboration between University of Reading and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (KNUST) and University of Ibadan (Nigeria). 2019. 30th -31st Jult, 2019. IITA-Ibadan and University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
  2. International Collaborator: 1st All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition. Safari Park Hotel. Nairobi, Kenya. 28th – 31st March, 2017. 
  3. Co-convener: 29th International Horticultural Congress:  Global Development & World Food Production. International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS): Sustainability through Integrated & Organic Horticulture, Fruits & Vegetables & Health, Plant Protection. 17-22 August 2014
  4. Principal Investigator: The World Vegetable-KNUST project on Postharvest Management of Leafy vegetables in Ghana
  5. Ghana Team Member: Regional Policy Dialogue on Meeting Requirements Relating to Technical Regulations and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures along the Agricultural Value Chain in Africa’. African Union’s Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU/IBAR) Offices in Nairobi, Kenya. July 20-22, 2011.
  6. Member of five-member team that worked on the Identification of Appropriate Technologies for Improving Market Access and Incomes for Small Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia for the World Food Logistics Organisation (WFLO)/Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2009).
  7. Member of the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS) (2009 to date)
  8. Member of the Quality and Postharvest Horticulture Commission, International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS) (2009 to date)
  9. Member of three-member team that developed and used Simple postharvest technology interventions for the BMGF Appropriate Postharvest Technology Planning Project in Ghana. Project done with the support of World Food Logistics Organisation (WFLO) and sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2009).
  10. Team Member that implemented the Treculia africana Project in Africa, KNUST (2007)
  11. Member of the Project Management Team of the Ghana Institute of Horticulturists/Canadian Society of Horticultural Science (Agricultural Institute of Canada’s (AIC) International Twinning Partnership Projects (ITPP)) Projects in Ghana, Strengthening the impact of Horticulture on social Development in Ghana Project. Ghana (2006 to 2011).

 

(b) National

  1. Chairman: Parent Teacher Association, KNUST SHS, KNUST, Kumasi (2020 to date)
  2. External Examiner/Assessor: University of University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani (2020 to date 
  3. Facilitator (2019 to date): KNUST-ENI Market-focused Training Project in Agricultural Value Chains for Youth Empowerment and Job Creation in Ghana (dubbed “OKUAFO PA”), Funded to the tune of US$619,800 by ENI Oil Explorations.
  4. External Examiner/Assessor: University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast (2019 to date) 
  5. KNUST Representative: Graduate Entrepreneur Programme, SELF-HELP, Kumasi, Ghana (2019 to date)
  6. External Assessor for Promotion: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana (2017 to date)
  7. External Assessor for Promotion: Koforidua Polytechnic (Now Koforidua Technical University)- (2017 to date)
  8. External Assessor for Promotion: Bolgatanga Polytechnic (2017 to date)
  9. External Examiner/Assessor: University of Development Studies (UDS), Tamale (2016 to date) 
  10. Team Member: Vegetable Production Competence Based Curriculum Development
  11. Team Member: Ghana Zero Hunger Strategic Review. Project of J. A. Kuffuor Foundation and World Food Programme. Review to help determine strategies for Ghana to end hunger and achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030.

 

  • 2017

 

Trainer of Trainees: Postharvest handling of vegetables funded by The World Vegetable Centre (AVRDC – Taiwan) 

Beneficiaries: MoFA Agricultural Extension Agents (Koforidua, Kumasi, Sunyani)

 

  • 2013

 

  1. Vice President, Ghana Institute of Horticulturists (GhIH) (2013-2017)
  2. Facilitator, Seminar on Horticulture: A potential solution to graduate unemployment – College of Agriculture Education, University of Education, Winneba (2011)
  3. Member of the Project Management Team of the Ghana Institute of Horticulturists/Canadian Society of Horticultural Science (Agricultural Institute of Canada’s (AIC) International Twinning Partnership Projects (ITPP)) Projects in Ghana, Strengthening the impact of Horticulture on social Development in Ghana Project. Ghana (2006 to 2011).
  4. Project Team Member/Investigator – Council for Industrial Research and West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (CSIR-WAAPP) 2-year project -Solar drying technology of cassava and yam, and their by-products, for food security in Ghana (Technology Transfer). (2010 to date).

 

(c) Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

  1. Chairman, Vacation Training Programme, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, KNUST (2021)
  2. Chairman, Committee for Grant Proposal Writing (2021)
  3. Reviewer, KNUST Research Fund (KReF) (2021)
  4. Chairman: Committee on Introduction of Short Courses, Department of Horticulture, KNUST, Kumasi (2020)
  5. Member: Committee on Committee to Develop New Faculty Programme in Agricultural Value Addition, Faculty of Agriculture, KNUST, Kumasi (2020)
  6. Member: Committee for IDL Programmes of the Faculty of Agricultures, KNUST, Kumasi (2020)
  7. Member: Committee for Review and Verification of Theses of Students of IDL TOP-UP BSc Degree Programme, Faculty of Agriculture, KNUST, Kumasi (2020)
  8. Chairman, Committee on Introduction of New Programmes to Offer at IDL and Other Short courses, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2020 to date)
  9. Chairman, Committee o Package Revised BSc Landscape Design and Management Programme for Reaccreditation, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2020 to date)
  10. Chairman, Committee o Package Review BSc Landscape Design and Management as well as All Postgraduate Programme for Reaccreditation, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2020 to date)
  11. Chairman, Committee to Review All postgraduate programmes for Re-accreditation, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2020 to date)
  12. Principal Investigator: GCRF-University of Reading-KNUST Cassava Leaf Valorisation Project (2019)
  13. Coordinator, Vacation Training of Faculty of Agriculture Students of KNUST (2018 to date)
  14. Moderator: Sunyani Technical University, Sunyani, Ghana (2018 to date)
  15. Member, Committee to re-brand the BSc Postharvest Programme (2017)
  16. IDL Coordinator for Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2017) 
  17. Member, Committee for the vetting of examination questions of the Department 2017
  18. Member, KNUST-AGRIIMPACT ECOSIB Seed Enterprise Project, CANR, KNUST, Kumasi (2016-2018)
  19. Vice Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2015-2016)
  20. Head, Department of Horticulture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2014 to 2016)
  21. Examination Officer (2012 to 2015): Department of Horticulture, KNUST
  22. Committee Chairman (2014): Course Codes Revision, Department of Horticulture, KNUST
  23. Committee member (2014): Short Courses Development Committee, Department of Horticulture, KNUST
  24. Member, Committee that reviewed the Diploma in Landscape Design and Management, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2011)
  25. Member, Postgraduate Programme Review Committee, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2011)
  26. Member, Committee to review the introduction of a Diploma Programme in the Postharvest Technology (2010)
  27. Chairman, Committee to develop Diploma in Horticulture to HND in Horticulture for Cape Coast Polytechnic (2009) 
  28. Member, Upgrading of Food Science and Technology Syllabus (FTECH 562 Meat and Fish Technology), Department of Food Science and Technology/Faculty of agriculture, KNUST (2009)
  29. Member, Vacation Training/Field Trip Committee, Department of Horticulture, KNUST (2009-2010)
  30. Departmental Board Secretary, Department of Horticulture, KNUST, Kumasi. (2008 to 2010).
  31. Fellow, Queen Elizabeth II Hall, KNUST (2008 to date)
    1. Service Lecturer, AS 455 Meat Science and Animal Products Processing, Department of Animal Science, KNUST, Kumasi (2007-2009)
  32. Academic Tutor, Faculty of Agriculture, KNUST, Kumasi. (2006 to date).
  33. Member of Examiners Board of Faculty of Agriculture, KNUST, Kumasi (2006 to date).


Print page

SEND QUICK MAIL TO STAFF

Subject

Message

Your Email Address:
Note: this is to help the staff contact you back.