The Regional workshop for Food Security Center, University of Nairobi on “Sustainable Safe Food Systems in Africa: Moving towards a Sustainable Food Future” was held on 23rd till 26th September, 2019 at the Nelson Mandela Conference Hall in the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi.
The economy of developing countries, Kenya included, is still based on agriculture. Potato is one of the crops contributing immensely to Kenya’s agricultural sub-sector. Potatoes are processed into a variety of products such as chips, fries, mashed potatoes and flakes which results in a great amount of peels some of which go to waste. Industrial processing generates between 70 and 140 thousand tons of peels worldwide annually. The wastes from potato processing are mainly potato skins, starch and inert material.
