ISHS Symposium on Underutilized Plant Species: Speaker Highlight 2025-06-24
Dr. Festo Massawe Ph.D.
Potential for underutilized crops to improve nutrition security and socio-economic equity in a changing world
Professor Festo Massawe is a crop scientist with expertise in crop diversity, sustainable and resilient food systems. He is a former Head of School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and currently leads Food Systems Diversification Research team. He has extensive experience in developing and leading research, training and knowledge exchange activities focused on underutilized crops (and has worked) with partners in Asia, Africa and Europe. His research is focused on promoting food systems diversification through wider use of underutilized plant species, believing that these efforts will lead to a healthy, sustainable and resilient future.
