Michael Akenteng Wiafe is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Nutritional Science, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale-Ghana. Michael holds a BSc in Community Nutrition (UDS) and MPhil in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Kumasi-Ghana). He is a final year PhD Candidate at KNUST investigating the effect of nutrition education and counselling on adolescents’ dietary iron intake and iron status in Ghana. His research focus includes micronutrients, malnutrition, dietary patterns, dietary management and prevention of chronic diseases, therapeutic food development, nutrition in pregnancy, childhood, and adulthood. As an innovative young researcher, the QES will allow him to collaborate and network with astute and top-notch researchers in nutrition, agriculture, and other disciplines. Michael believes the best way to reverse the consequences of nutritional deficiencies and reduce poverty is to eat what we grow and grow what we eat locally. Value addition to agricultural produce is a prerequisite for entrepreneurship and community development. As a QES scholar, Michael will be collaborating with Densu Associates as his Research Placement Partner (RPP). He will review institutions and organisations focused on promoting education, skills/training and/or employment with particular attention to gender, disability and youth in the agriculture sector of Ghana. Michael will help produce a research report detailing opportunities and barriers that women, especially young women aged 15 to 35 years of diverse backgrounds (young married people, widowed, people with disabilities, displaced youth, etc) face in Agriculture in Ghana.