xxii Contributors development (ISARD). She is currently working with the team on developing an online courseware on school gardens and scaling out the School + Home Gardens Project (S+HGP) to other parts of the Philippines and to other countries in Southeast Asia. Contributors Nes ёе Adanaciog ˘ lu (Aegean Agricultural Research Institute; https://orcid. org/0000-0001-9009-8635), received her MSc in 2002 with the thesis ‘Inves- tigations on the cultivation of Lentinula edodes on bag culture without using laminar air flow hood’ as well as her PhD in 2011 with the thesis ‘Researches on the cultivation techniques of Agaricus brasiliensis (Syn. A.
blazei Murrill.) mushroom’ – both from Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, where she also worked at as a research assistant between 2006 and 2010. Since 2010 she has been working as a researcher at Department of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of Aegean Agricultural Research Institute, Izmir, Turkey. Leila S. Africa (University of the Philippines Los Bacos) is an associate professor and current director of the Institute of Human Nutrition and Food, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Bacos (UPLB). She has a doctorate in Nutrition and has been teaching community nutrition undergrad- uate and graduate courses since 2002 at UPLB.
She served as Study Leader for Nutrition in the School-Plus-Home Gardens Project. She led the impact study of the project and organized nutrition training for teachers and vegetable cooking contests for mother and student teams. She produced a nutrition-based cookbook with standardized formulation for use in schools. Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa (Food and Nutrition Research Institute) is the chief science research specialist of the Nutrition Management and Monitoring Division of the Department of Science and Technology – Food and Nutrition Research Institute.
This division is in charge of conducting national nutrition surveys, modelling nutrition interventions, and developing policy recommendations. She was conferred Scientist II in 2018. She has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed international and local journals, and is a recipient of the Alberto G. Romualdez, Jr. Outstanding Health Research Award and Outstanding Oral Presentation Award by the Society of International Endocrinology and Metabolism, Seoul, South Korea. Manivanh Aliyavong (The Agro-Biodiversity Initiative) is currently Project Management Coordinator for the Swiss-funded Agro-Biodiversity Initiative (TABI). Previously she was a Contract Management and Monitoring Officer.
She worked for Nam Theun 2 Power Company (NTPC) as Administrative and P rogram Assistant under the Social and Environment Division, and for Nam Et Phou Loei Integrated Conservation and Development as Project Finance and Admin Assistant.