DR. STEPHEN ONAKUSE professor and coordinator of the Agrismundus Program elected President of AGRINATURA (The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development)
Dr Stephen Onakuse has been elected President of the European Alliance on Agriculture knowledge for Development (Agrinatura). Due to commence his tenure on 21 May 2021, Dr Onakuse brings a wealth of knowledge and an array of experience to the role.
An expert in agricultural food systems, Dr Onakuse leads the Agris Mundus MSc in Agriculture for Sustainable Development at Cork University Business School and is the Principal Investigator on an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project focussing on sustainable production and consumption.
He is also the PI on a European Union DeSIRA funded project titled Climate Smart Agriculture Research and Innovation Support for Dairy Value Chains in Eritrea.
As a co-principal investigator, Dr Onakuse has also been involved in the European Union’s Agris Mundus and Agtrain Erasmus Joint Doctoral Programme (EMJD) projects and has also worked at the interface between livelihood and sustainability, looking specifically at the commercialisation of smallholders and organic certification.
Dr. Stephen Onakuse has collaborated closely with the GESPLAN Research Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid through the Agrismundus and Agtrain agreement with the Double Master and PhD Program in Rural Development Project Planning and Sustainable management. He is currently co-director of Lea Jenin's doctoral thesis and has co-directed the doctoral thesis of the now Dr. Emmanuel Donkor, all of them within the Agtrain Program.
Let’s shape our future together (members of Agrinatura)
Five of the most important European universities convened into the Agris Mundus consortium to offer the Agris Mundus Master of Science
Agrinatura currently has 35 members, research institutions/universities from 16 European countries, including UPM (ETSIAAB):
Albania:
Agricultural University of Tirana (AUT)
Austria:
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)
Belgium:
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
KU Leuven
Ghent University (U Gent)
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech- University of Liège (Gembloux)
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Czech:
University of Life Sciences Prague, CULS
Denmark:
Aarhus University (AU)
University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
Helsinki:
University of Helsinki (UH)
Finland:
Natural Resurces Institute Finland (LUKE)
Francia:
Agropolis International
Ll'institut Agro
Institute of research for development (IRD)
Centre for international cooperation research and development in agriculture (CIRAD)
College of International Agro-Development (ISTOM)
Agreenium
Germany:
Georg-August University Göttingen, Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
University of Hohenheim (UHOH)
Hungary:
Szent Istvan University (SZI)
Ireland:
National University of Ireland Galway (NUI, Galway)
University College Cork (UCC)
Italy:
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA)
The University of Catania (UNICT)
Netherlands:
Wageningen University and Research centre (WUR)
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA)
Portugal:
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA)
Spain:
Polytecnic University of Madrid
Sweden:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Switzerland:
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
United of Kingdom:
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich (NRI)
University of Reading (U Reading)
La ETSIAAB forma parte de Agrinatura
A regular media contributor, Dr Onakuse has also offered his thoughts on issues pertaining to sustainability and social equality in the public sphere.
As President of Agrinatura, Dr Onakuse will lead an organisation comprising of 35 different research institutions and universities from 16 European countries – of which University College Cork is a member.
As a major European research organisation, Agrinatura aims to contribute to the development and dissemination of knowledge to tackle poverty, promote economic growth and enhance food security.
Named after an Irish Priest who worked in his community, Dr Onakuse first came to Cork 20 years ago to pursue a PhD in Food Business and Development at UCC after completing an MSc in Environmental Biology at the University of Ibadan in his native Nigeria. Dr. Onakuse is also a board member of the non-profit organisation, Gorta, which works to end poverty and hunger in rural Africa.
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