Dr. Hadijah A. Mbwana

  1. Name: Hadijah A. Mbwana (PhD)
  2. Academic Qualification: Doctor (PhD)
  3. Position: Senior Lecturer
  4. Contacts: Email: hadija27@yahoo.com or mbwana@suanet.ac.tz

Mobile Phone: 255713385631

 

  1. Bio:

Dr. Hadijah Mbwana is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in the Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania. She holds a BSc in Home Economics and Human Nutrition from SUA and an MSc in Human Nutrition from Massey University New Zealand. She obtained her PhD in Agriculture and Nutrition from SUA/ University of Hohenheim, Germany. She has served as a consultant, project coordinator and advisor for a number of national and international institutions. She is actively involved in community nutrition research; has worked in several research involving promotion of production and consumption of green leafy vegetables, dietary practices and patterns of the vulnerable groups and exploring the potential of indigenous and locally produced foods throughout the food value chain in mitigating hunger and malnutrition; particularly micronutrient deficiencies.

  1. Areas of specialization: Dietary practices and patterns of vulnerable groups, food and nutrition security potential of indigenous and locally produced foods throughout the food value chain, improving nutrition through agriculture, infant and young child feeding, breastfeeding promotion and protection.

 

  1. Projects:
    • The Trans-SEC project Funded by the Germany the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and co-financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),
    • Co- Project Coordinator: Scale-N project [Scaling-Up Nutrition: Implementing Potentials of nutrition-sensitive and diversified agriculture to increase food security. The Scale-N project was financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)]2016-2018)
    • Project Coordinator: Vegi-Leg project: Implementing innovative processing technologies for nutrient-dense plant foods – African indigenous vegetables and legumes – to safeguard perennial nutrition security: Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), (2019-2021).
    • The Pic-Nutri project in designing, administering, evaluation and implementing a nutrition training package for rural women farmers in Tanzania funded by the Nestle Foundation (2020).

 

  • The currently the ongoing FoCo-Active project addressing the triple burden of malnutrition through behavioural change in food consumption and physical activity in Tanzania, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) (2022-2025).
  • A consultancy on Rapid Assessment of Malnutrition especially stunting in eight selected regions of Tanzania funded by Big Win Philanthropy through the PO-RALG.

 

  1. Links
  2. The FoCo-Active project: https://www.foco-active.org/
  3. The Vegi-Leg project: https://www.sua.ac.tz/news/watch-vegi-leg-project-implements-low-cost-processing-technologies-improve-nutrition-security
  1. Googlescholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=63YmF9gAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=ABEO0Yo-ANoQf7iy–XpbR19r47m66DsCKEDgub-ZK_SOJ0_zQbI0Tr0c87zVNl2VlvRyDVZV5p_fmp9GzaULG1l
  2. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0266-616X

 

 

  1. Selected Publications:
    • Chirande L, Charwe D, Mbwana H, Victor R, Kimboka S, Issaka A, et al. (2015). Determinants of stunting and severe stunting among under-fives in Tanzania : evidence from the 2010 cross-sectional household survey. BMC Pediatrics, 1–13. doi:10.1186/s12887-015-0482-9

 

  • Mbwana, H. A., Kinabo, J., Lambert, C., & Biesalski, H. K. (2016). Determinants of household dietary practices in rural Tanzania : Implications for nutrition interventions. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 13, 1–13.

 

  • Graef, F., Uckert, G., Schindler, J., Konig, H., Mbwana, H.A et al (2017). Expert-based ex-ante assessments of potential social, ecological, and economic impacts of upgrading strategies for improving food security in rural Tanzania using the ScalA-FS approach. Food Security-Springer, DOI 10.1007/s12571-016-0639-x

 

  • Mbwana, H. A., Kinabo, J., Lambert, C and Biesalski, H.K. (2017). Factors influencing stunting among children in rural Tanzania: An agro-climatic zone perspective. Springer Journal of Food Security, 1-15, DOI: 10.1007/s12571-017-0672-4.

 

  • Bonatti, M., Homem, L.H.I.R., Graef, F., Mbwana, H.A., Rybak, C. Lana, M., & Sieber, S. (2017). Social organization, constraints and opportunities for kitchen garden implementation: ScalA and ScalA-FS assessment tools in Morogoro and Dodoma, Tanzania. Food Sec. (2017) 9: 1299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-017-0726-7

 

  • Rybak, C., Mbwana, H.A., Bonatti, M. et al., (2018). Status and scope of kitchen gardening of green leafy vegetables in rural Tanzania: implications for nutrition interventions.

Food Security, 10: 1437.

  • Stuetz, W., Gowele, V., Kinabo, J., Bundala, N., Mbwana, H., Rybak, C., … Biesalski, H. K. (2019). Consumption of Dark Green Leafy Vegetables Predicts Vitamin A and Iron Intake and Status among Female Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania. Nutrients, 11(5), 1025. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11051025

 

  • Mbwana, H. (2019). Consumer behavior and consumption practices towards less documented wild leafy vegetables among rural households in Dodoma Region, Tanzania. International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology, Vol-4, Issue-4,

 

  • Mbwana, H.A. & Kinabo, J. (2020). Nutrient intake of Women of Child Bearing Age from Two Agro- climatic zones of Rural Areas in Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol. 19 No. 2, 92-106

 

  • Mbwana, H. A. (2020). Women’s insights on anaemia and the impact of nutrition training: An intervention study among rural women in Dodoma, Tanzania. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 6:1, 1855704, DOI: 10.1080/23311932.2020.1855704

 

  • Eleraky, L.; Issa, R.; Maciel, S.; Mbwana, H.; Rybak, C.; Frank, J.; Stuetz, W. (2021). High Prevalence of Overweight and Its Association with Mid-Upper Arm Circumference

among Female and Male Farmers in Tanzania and Mozambique. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 9128.

 

  • Hadijah A. Mbwana, Hope Masanja, Kudra Ally, Lufingo Mwakatobe. (2022). Development and validation of a nutrition training package for rural women farmers in Tanzania: A pilot study. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development. Volume 9, Issue 5, 2022, Page No. 14-20

 

  • Hoffmann HK, Kinabo JL, Sieber S, Stuetz W, Bonatti M, Mbwana HA, Uckert GB, Matavel CE, Hafner JM, Löhr K and Rybak C, (2022). Editorial: (2022). Achieving nutrition security in Tanzania by improving production, education and economics: Methods, tools a nd applications. Frontiers Public Health 10:1014741. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.1014741

 

  • Dhanya Vijayan, David Ludwig, Constance Rybak, Harald Kaechele, Harry Hoffmann, Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Hadijah A. Mbwana, Carlos Vacaflores Rivero & Katharina Löhr (2022). Indigenous knowledge in food system transformations. Communications, Earth and Environment, 3:213

 

  • Custodio Efraim Matavel, Harry Hoffmann, Johannes Michael Hafner, Harison Kiplagat Kipkulei, Götz Uckert, Jacob Kaingo, João Salavessa, Hadijah A. Mbwana, Ramula Issa, Leonel Silva Novela, Stefan Sieber & Constance Rybak (2022). Fuel scarcity or household wealth? Assessing the drivers of cooking energy consumption patterns in rural areas in East Africa, Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, DOI: 10.1080/14728028.2022.2153282

 

  • Mbwana, H. and Bundala, N. (2023). A Hub of Food amid of Nutrition Insecurities: Exploring Food and Nutrition Situations in Rural Areas of Tanzania. East African Journal of Science, Technology and Innovation 4 (special issue 2).