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Roseanna Avento
Global Development Manager
My research focuses on food security related initiatives in the Global South. I work on aquaculture and specifically fish farming development, food innovation using neglected foods and indigenous knowledge, food safety and quality management as well as value chain management and development of gender-based value chains. The development of tertiary education (vocational and higher education) is a cross-cutting theme in all of my global engagements in research and education.
Projects
Global Foodnet: Ancient Crops for Food Security
Central Asia Finnish Education Institutes for Green Biotechnology and Food Security
Aquaculture and fisheries development in the Kyrgyz Republic
Green biotechnology for food security
Development of women fish farmer cooperatives in Nepal
Capacity Building in Fisheries and Aquaculture Education in the Kyrgyz Republic
Education collaboration opportunities between Finland and South Africa
Food safety and quality management
Teachers of the future : Finnish-Namibian collaborative teacher education
Food product development from indigenous foods
Role of Finnish higher education in global food and nutrition security
Tuulikki Pietilä
University Lecturer
I am an anthropologist with a long and multifaceted experience in researching Africa and in acting as the PI for research projects on Africa. Thematically I have examined various societal changes that take place in the coming together of global and local regimes of economic and socio-cultural value. My specific research topics include the following: women traders and socio-economic empowerment in Tanzania; youth cultures' and culture industries' social and economic significance in South Africa; music industry structures, practices and value chains in South Africa and Europe; clothing and fashion industry-related entrepreneurships in South Africa and Tanzania; emerging black middle classes. I am fluent in KiSwahili language.