Research Seminar with Temidayo Akenroye

Connecting African smallholder farmers to structured demand markets: The power of inclusive procurement

A catered lunch will be available from 11:30 AM for in-person attendees.

Description:

Public or non-profit bodies with regular and reliable food demand create Structured Demand (SD) marketplaces. A well-known example is Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF), which connects smallholder farmers in poor nations to markets. Despite the explicit purpose of the HGSF program, smallholders’ direct involvement as suppliers has been minimal in most African nations. In this seminar, Dr. Temidayo Akenroye will present his research on interventions design to mitigate barriers facing smallholder farmer participation as suppliers to school feeding programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Kenya, and Mali). The project outcomes offer important insights that can be applied to improve procurement practices for school feeding programs in other countries.

Biography:

Temidayo Akenroye is a Professor in the College of Business Administration, University of Missouri at St Louis. His recent research interests focus on using supply chain management to address sustainable development challenges such as healthcare, food security, modern slavery, small businesses, and sustainability in global consumption and production systems.

Temidayo’s recent pioneering study to enhance the supply chains of blood products and human organs in African has earned him widespread recognition. He has published widely in many leading academic and practitioner journals including the International Journal of Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, European Business Review, and International Public Management, among others.

He is a member of the Peer Review College of the British Academy of Management and the Research Advisory Board for the Africa Resource Centre (ARC). He is also an academic advisor for the Kuehne Foundation in Germany and a senior visiting fellow at Lagos Business School in Nigeria.