Engineer Professor Ernest Teye holds a BSc in Agriculture, PGD in Educational Psychology, MSc in Research Methodology, MPhil in Postharvest Technology, and PhD in Food Science & Engineering (With Excellent Award). Prof Teye is a talented Agri-food System Technology Innovator, Food Integrity Engineering, and a renowned Researcher in Food Fraud Detection using AI coupled to spectroscopy at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, where he has shown outstanding leadership in championing safer food for all from farm to fork by employing cutting-edge technology along the agricultural value chain. Having served as a visiting scholar to world-class Universities such as Makerere University (Uganda), the Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINADCO) in Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Israel), Queen’s University of Belfast (UK), Jiangsu University (P. R. China), and Ulster University (UK), Prof Teye has contributed to global research findings and knowledge transfer with over 1900 citations and 75 publications in reputable indexed journals.
Prof Teye is also a Food Engineer and Postgraduate supervisor. He has supervised and trained several master's and Ph.D. candidates at home and abroad. Prof Teye is deeply interested in determining agri-food integrity from farm to fork using artificial intelligence technologies. This interest has made him a globally sought-after researcher and speaker at world conferences and workshops, especially after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many food systems were weakened. With his background in Agriculture, Postharvest Technology, Food Science, and Engineering, Prof Teye has become a global expert in Food Integrity. He is particularly interested in using novel research findings to overcome food safety and fraud challenges while improving Agri-food production.
Prof Teye has also provided an advisory role to the International Atomic Energy Agency of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO /IAEA) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). He also serves as an external reviewer for UNESCO, the Organization for Women in Science for Development, and other reputable international journals and organizations. Through hard work and dedication to novel research for development, Prof. Teye rose from Senior Research Assistant to Professor from 2014 to 2023 and has won several local and international awards/grants. Notable among a few are the MASHAV-CINADCO Award 2017, Israel Embassy in Ghana Research Award 2018, Best Evolving Researcher Award, and Best Evolved Researcher Award for 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023, respectively; Agilent Foundation Research Excellence Award, 2019, and the United Kingdom Research Innovate Award, 2022. Furthermore, during the ‘plastic rice’ incidence that distracted the world’s rice value chain in 2017-2019, Prof. Teye was part of the global team and also leader of the African team mandated for developing a two-tier technique for onsite and offsite detection solution for the measurement of global rice integrity which was sponsored by USA Agilent foundation and MARS global. Since then, he has been engaged in several world-class projects with a high foreign inflow amounting to several US dollars.
Engr Professor Ernest Teye is ranked the Agricultural Engineering among the Best Scientists at the University of Cape Coast, in Ghana, in Africa, and 113th in the World by the AD Scientific Index. Also, he is the team lead in the Africa Agricultural Consortium project. A founder of Food Fraud and Safety Centre (AfriFoodinTegrity Centre) and an advocate for Agri-input and food fraud prevention, aiming to make Africa and Ghana’s agricultural inputs authentic and the food produced safe for all.
