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= Dr. Namukolo Covic = Namukolo Covic (PhD) is the Director General's Representative to Ethiopia for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and the Regional Director for East and Southern Africa of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Furthermore, Covic is the President of the African Nutrition Society. She has worked extensively with the government of Ethiopia and other stakeholders on different aspects of the food system, including the development of food-based dietary guidelines; and the development of Ethiopia’s food systems transformation pathway in response to Ethiopia’s development needs and the United Nations Food Systems Summit process. She has supported African Union efforts on linking agriculture and nutrition in the CAADP process.

Academic Career and Research
Namukolo Covic has a dual background in agriculture (BSc.) and nutrition (MSc. and PhD), and her expertise straddles the interface of policy, dynamics of agriculture and food systems and related interventions and how research could inform the intended impact on nutrition and health outcomes for Low-Middle-Income-Countries (LMICs) with special focus on Africa.

Namukolo is currently one of the editors of the Elsevier Global Food Security Journal and has served on many scientific working groups and committees including inter alia, the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation that developed Sustainable Healthy Diets Guiding Principles; African Union Commission CAADP Biennial Review Technical Working Group on the Ending Hunger Thematic Area; African Academy of Sciences Steering Committee on Food and Nutrition Security or the Technical Advisory Group for the African Leaders for Nutrition Initiative led by the African development bank.

She has published widely in academic journals, including the Africa Annual Trends and Outlooks Report 2015 published in 2016 on Achieving a Nutrition Revolution for Africa. She is a frequent speaker at African and global conferences including keynote addresses. Her areas of research interest have included child nutrition and cognitive development, diet quality, food security and food systems. She is a strong believer in Africa’s potential to address food security and nutrition more sustainably through an evidence informed food systems approach and that country and African regional programmes like CAADP and others present important entry points to promote progress.

Publications
Covic, N. et al. (2021). All hat and no cattle: Accountability following the UN food systems summit, Global Food Security 30(6), 100569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100569