ABOUT AMOS ADONGO
I attended Memba Primary School in Siaya County and sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) in 1986 before joining Maranda Boys High School in 1987 for Kenya Kenya Certificate of Secondary education (KCSE). I joined Egerton University in 1992 and completed Bachelors Degree (BSc) in Agriculture and Home economics in 1996. I was first appointed as Agricultural Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture and posted to the Marsabit District Agricultural Office as The District Home Economics and Rural Youth Officer. Most of the programmes implemented in the ministry were mainly through collaboration with Marsabit Development programme with financial support from GTZ. After five years, I joined the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and was posted to the National Arid Lands Research Centre in Marsabit. In 2005, I joined Egerton University for Master program (MSc) in Nutritional sciences with a thesis focusing on nutritional status of reproductive women in settled and sem- settled households in Marsabit County. The past 14 years work in northern Kenya has been focusing mainly on value addition of livestock products such as meat, milk and leather products and promotion of utilization of drought escaping crops such as sorghum, cassava, sweet potato, green grams among others, using local recipes. I am currently interested in linking postharvest value addition technologies for agricultural products to enhancement of nutritional status of vulnerable households among pastoral communities in northern Kenya.