Dr. Muimba Kankolongo A
Senior Lecturer-Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Ambayeba Muimba Kankolongo (BSc, MPhil, PhD)
Academic and Research Interests
Plant pathology and Bio-security
The aim of my activities in research is to minimize field and forest crop diseases that affect food and plantation productivity in Zambia and the SADC region. Academically, increasing the plant pathology expertise of students, and field crop and forestry producers constitutes my major task. My work involves a wide range of stakeholders including plant breeders, agronomists and others to assess for their feasibility cultural and biological disease control strategies as a component of an integrated crop management programme. Specifically, my research includes the biology, epidemiology, etiology and more recently the genetic of disease causal agents. It also involves determining mechanisms of host resistance and mycoflora responsible for food spoilage due to fungal contamination and mycotoxin production both in field and storage facilities. Safety of food for nutritional quality has been at the center of effort. My team has also embarked on determining health hazards associated with consumption of food produced on the fringe of mines in the copper belt of DRC and Zambia
Publications
Kabamba H. and A. Muimba-Kankolongo, 2009. Adoption and impact of conservation farming on crop productivity among smallholder farmers in Kapiri Mposhi District of Zambia. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences 3: 205-214.
Moola S. W., Muimba-Kankolongo A and Kangwa J.M., 2009. Growth performance of Pterocarpus angolensis seedlings in mycorrhizae colonized and uncolonized soils from high rainfall area of Zambia. Journal of Applied Biosciences 19: 1054–1064.
Muimba-Kankolongo A., Kerstin Hell and Irene N Nawa, 2009. Assessment for Fungal, Mycotoxin and Insect Spoilage in Maize Stored for Human Consumption in Zambia. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 89: 1366-1375.
Muimba-Kankolongo A., IN Nawa, J Roux and P Ng’andwe, 2009. Damage to foliage and stems caused by fungal pathogens in young eucalypt plantations in Zambia. Southern Forests 71: 171-178.
Banda, M.K., Ng’andwe, P., Muimba-Kankolongo, A. and Mwitwa, J.P. 2009. Markets food wood and non wood forest products in Zambia. Mission Press, Ndola, Zambia. (In Press)
Presentations at International and Local Conferences
Muimba-Kankolongo A., F. Njovu and S. Boby, 2007. Safeguarding minor root and tuber crops germplasm for food security and income generation- the case of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Zambia. Southern Africa Root crops Research Network (SARRNET) Advisory Committee workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-4 April, 2007
Muimba-Kankolongo A., P. Ng’andwe, I. N. Nawa and J. Roux, 2007. Damage of Foliar and Stem Diseases in Young Eucalypt Plantations in Zambia. IUFRO Working Group 2.08.03 on Eucalypts and Diversity: Balancing productivity and sustainability. Durban, South Africa, 22-26 October 2007
Roux, J., Muimba-Kankolongo A., Apetorgbor, M., Begoude, D., Nakabonge, G. and M.J., Wingfield, 2008. The many challenges for plant pathology in Africa. Invited presentation at 9th International Congress of Plant Pathology, 24-29, August 2008, Torino, Italy