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Bolanle Akinwande is a lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Engineering, LAUTECH and a member of the Institute of Food Technologists. She lectures and supervises research work of university students from B.Sc. to Ph.D. level, with passion to address issues relating to access to healthy foods by rural poor. Her research focus is to solve the problems of nutritional deficiencies and poverty trap of the smallholder farmers through enhancement of utilization of under cultivated and neglected local functional crops that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition.