Principal Regional Adviser for Food Security and Sustainable Development
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Dr. Abalu is the Principal Regional Adviser for Food Security and Sustainable Development at the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University. Prior to joining the United Nations he was Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Ahmed Bello University in Nigeria. He currently serves as Extraordinary Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He has published widely in the area of food security, and will discuss the current conditions in Africa.