Veronica Uzokwe
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Tanzania
Biography
Veronica Uzokwe has received her MSc in Agronomy (1998) from the University of Ibadan and her PhD (2008) in Plant Breeding/Genetics from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), both in Nigeria. She has joined IITA, Dar es Salaam, Eastern African (EA) Hub in her current role as a System Agronomist in 2013 and currently the country project Coordinator for the Support to Agriculture for Research and Development of Strategic Crops in Africa (SARD-SC) project. Earlier, from 2011 to 2013, she was a Plant Breeder/Agronomist with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Los Banes, Philippines.