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Dr Elizabeth Mkandawire is a research assistant at the University of Pretoria's (UP) Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being. She is also the network and research manager for the Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa), a collaborative project between the UP, the University of Leeds in the UK, and the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network.
Dr Selorm Dorvlo is a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Ghana and a fellow in the FSNet-Africa project.
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