{"id":2044,"date":"2023-03-14T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/?post_type=rwexperts&p=2044"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:47:18","slug":"meet-amaka-chukwudum","status":"publish","type":"rwexperts","link":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/rwexperts\/meet-amaka-chukwudum\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaka Chukwudum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education & Certifications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Education: Chukwudum graduated from Abia State University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in English education, a diploma in French in 2007, and a certificate as a Chartered Economist of Nigeria in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also holds a certificate in Clinical Psychology for Children and Young People from the University of Edinburgh, as well as an M.Sc in Business Administration from Business School Netherlands. Holds certificate on food security with the Dutch government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Career & Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chukwudum practises integrated plant and animal farming, as well as training farmers in food processing and farm produce exportation. She also works as an agriculture consultant, assisting clients in the establishment of farms. She has trained over 3600 youths and women in Organic Agriculture.
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Chukwudum worked as a banker for EcoBank for five years (2007- 2012) before venturing into agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n

She received the Rowead Award in 2018 and 2019, as well as the Women in Leadership Award in 2022. She belongs to the Borderless Trade Network.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chukwudum is the President of the Eat Right Initiative as well as the Co-Founder of Organic Dynasty Innovative for Africa. She is a member of the Chartered Economists of Nigeria, the Association of Organic Practitioners of Nigeria, and the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs, among other organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Skills Utilisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

She can be very helpful in training prospective farmers, setting up new farms for clients, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2046,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"rwsectors":[355],"class_list":["post-2044","rwexperts","type-rwexperts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rwsectors-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rwexperts"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2044\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rwsectors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwsectors?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}