xxviii Contributors and Agroforestry (FTA), she leads Flagship 1: Tree genetic resources to bridge production gaps and promote resilience. She hosts the African Orphan Crops Consortium; this initiative supports the mainstreaming of 101 crops of nutri- tional importance to Africans into food systems through the application of new genomic methods. Aileen R. de Juras (University of the Philippines Los Bacos) is an assistant profes- sor at the Institute of Human Nutrition and Food, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Bacos. She has a BSc in Nutrition and an MSc in applied nutrition from UPLB.
Currently, she is working on her doctorate in Public Health at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Her research and public service involvements include nutrition education, capacity development, and nutrition programme planning and management. Kevin Kamp (The Agro-Biodiversity Initiative) is currently the Chief Technical Advisor and Team Leader for the Swiss-funded Agro-Biodiversity Initiative, a decade-long investment in agrobiodiversity conservation, development, policy support, and scaling in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
Mr Kamp has held leadership positions in programmes supporting biodiversity conservation, sustain- able agriculture, climate smart agriculture, fisheries research, and project formu- lation in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Thailand in the Asia region as well as similar positions in A frica and the Caribbean. He has worked for FAO, Danida, Swiss Agency for De velopment and Cooperation (SDC), civil society organizations, and other development agencies.
Agnes Katiwa (Feed the Children) is a program officer working with Feed the Children to implement different livelihoods projects in Nairobi, including pro- jects on food trees for diversified diets and improved nutrition. The projects aim at empowering the communities for better and improved livelihoods. Agnes has implemented the World Agroforestry (ICRAF)-led Food Tree/Fruiting Africa projects in Laikipia and Machakos-Mwala counties in Kenya. Agnes is currently finalizing her MA degree in community development at Kenyatta University. Chris J.
Kettle (Bioversity International and Eidgenцssische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9476-013), PhD, is an ecologist and a geneticist. He has 20 years of research experience working in tropical forest landscapes and restoration. Since August 2017, he has been leading Bioversity International’s cross-cutting interdisciplinary research team, work- ing on conservation and sustainable use of socio-economically and e cologically important trees, and their genetic diversity.
He holds a joint appointment and is Group Leader in the Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an associate scientist in the Department of Plant Science, University of Oxford, UK. Prior to joining Bioversity International, he was a senior lecturer at the ETH Zurich (2007–present).