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{{short description|Ugandian biochemist, food scientist, academic and corporate executive}}
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| occupation = [[Scientist|Food Scientist]], [[Academic]] and [[Corporate executive]]
| occupation = [[Scientist|Food Scientist]], [[Academic]] and [[Corporate executive]]
| years_active = 1975 — present
| years_active = 1975 — present
| nationality = [[Uganda]]n
| nationality = Ugandan
| ethnicity = [[Soga people|Musoga]]
| citizenship = Uganda
| citizenship = [[Uganda]]
| known_for = [[Academic|Academics]], [[Science|Scientific research]]
| residence = [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]]
| known_for = [[Academics]], [[Science|Scientific research]]
| honorific_prefix = Professor
| honorific_prefix = Professor
| networth =
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| home_town = [[Mayuge]]
| title = [[Executive Director]] of the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID)
| title = [[Executive Director]] of the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID)
|religion = [[Born-again Christian]]
|spouse = {{small|('''Manuel Muranga''')}}
|spouse = {{small|('''Manuel Muranga''')}}
}}
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'''Florence Isabirye Muranga''', is a female, [[biochemist]], [[food scientist]], [[academic]] and [[corporate executive]], who serves as the [[executive director]] of the ''Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development'' (PIBID), a presidential project started in effort to boost the commercialization of Uganda’s bananas through research and industrialization.<ref name="About">{{cite web | date=9 September 2016 | url=http://businessguideafrica.com/presidential-initiative-on-banana-industrial-development-pibid-at-risk-of-having-no-funds-over-its-legality/ |title=Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) at Risk of Having no Funds over its Legality |accessdate=9 November 2017 |publisher=Business Guide Africa (BGA) |author=BGA}}</ref>
'''Rev. Prof Florence Isabirye Muranga''' is a Ugandan [[biochemist]], [[food scientist]], [[academic]] and [[corporate executive]], who serves as the [[Director General]] of "Banana Industrial |Research Development Centre (BIRDC)" under the pilot project of ''Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development'' (PIBID), this project started in an effort to do research on value addition on green banana and later to boost the commercialization of Uganda's bananas through research and industrialization.<ref name="About">{{cite web | date=9 September 2016 | url=http://businessguideafrica.com/presidential-initiative-on-banana-industrial-development-pibid-at-risk-of-having-no-funds-over-its-legality/ |title=Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) at Risk of Having no Funds over its Legality |accessdate=9 November 2017 |publisher=Business Guide Africa (BGA) |author=BGA}}</ref>


==Background and education==
==Background and education==
She was born in present-day [[Mayuge District]] circa 1952, and attended "Kabuli Primary School" for her elementary school education. For her secondary school studies, she attended [[Gayaza High School]], a prestigious boarding girls' middle and high school, located in [[Gayaza]], [[Wakiso District]].<ref name="Profile">{{cite web|newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Full-Woman/10-years--banana--industrial--crop-wealth-/689842-3889814-format-xhtml-fxmvlaz/index.html |title=10 years of transforming the banana into an industrial crop | date=16 April 2017 |accessdate=9 November 2017 | location=Kampala | first=Eunice | last=Rukundo}}</ref>
She was born in present-day [[Mayuge District]] circa 1952, and attended "Kabuli Primary School" for her elementary school education. For her secondary school studies, she attended [[Gayaza High School]], a prestigious boarding girls' middle and high school, located in [[Gayaza]], [[Wakiso District]].<ref name="Profile">{{cite web|newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Full-Woman/10-years--banana--industrial--crop-wealth-/689842-3889814-format-xhtml-fxmvlaz/index.html |title=10 years of transforming the banana into an industrial crop | date=16 April 2017 |accessdate=9 November 2017 | location=Kampala | first=Eunice | last=Rukundo}}</ref>


In 1975 she graduated from [[Makerere University]], Uganda's largest and oldest public university, graduating with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree and a [[Education|Diploma in Education]], awarded in 1975. In 1990, she was awarded a [[Master of Science]] in [[Food Science]]. Later in 2000, she graduated with a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree in [[Biochemistry]], from Makerere University.<ref name="Profile"/>
In 1975 she graduated from [[Makerere University]], Uganda's largest and oldest public university, with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree and a [[Education|Diploma in Education]]. In 1990, she was awarded a [[Master of Science]] in [[Food Science]] by the [[University of Reading]] in the United Kingdom. Later in 2000, she graduated with a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree in [[Biochemistry]], from Makerere University.<ref name="Profile"/>


==Work experience==
==Work experience==
Before her retirement, Florence Isabirye Muranga was a Professor of Nutrition and Biochemistry in the Department of Food Science at Makerere University. She has special interest in the nutritional value of the banana fruit, particularity the variety called ''[[matooke]]''. She has published widely and extensively regarding her research on the subject.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2009326563_Florence_Isabirye_Muranga |accessdate=9 November 2017 |date=9 November 2017 |title=Florence Isabirye Muranga's scientific contributions while working at Makerere University and other institutions | publisher=Reseachgate.net (RGN) | author=RGN}}</ref>
Before her retirement, Florence Isabirye Muranga was a Professor of Nutrition and Biochemistry in the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition at Makerere University. She has special interest in the nutritional value of the banana fruit, particularity the variety called ''[[matooke]]''. She has published widely and extensively regarding her research on the subject.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2009326563_Florence_Isabirye_Muranga |accessdate=9 November 2017 |date=9 November 2017 |title=Florence Isabirye Muranga's scientific contributions while working at Makerere University and other institutions | author=RGN}}</ref>


==Banana research==
==Banana research==
In 2005 Professor Muranga an encounter with the president of Uganda, [[Yoweri Museveni]], and the president was impressed with the professor's research. Two years later, the president established the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) and named Muranaga the Executive Director. The program is an aggressive food-value addition effort, yielding a range of matooke byproducts including (a) tooke biscuits (cookies), (b) tooke powder for porridge, (c) tooke flour for matooke meal, (d) matooke chips for snacking (e) matooke flakes for cereal and (f) matooke starch and others.<ref name="Profile"/>
In 2005 Professor Muranga had an encounter with the president of Uganda, [[Yoweri Museveni]], and the president was impressed with the professor's research. Two years later, the president established the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) and named Muranaga the Executive Director. The program is an aggressive food-value addition effort, yielding a range of matooke byproducts including (a) tooke biscuits (cookies) (b) tooke powder for porridge (c) tooke flour for matooke meal and bread-making (d) matooke chips for snacking (e) matooke flakes for cereal and (f) matooke starch and others.<ref name="Profile"/>


PIBID established a banana farm on a {{convert|24|acre|0}} piece of land and a modern matooke processing factory in the the town of [[Bushenyi]], in [[Bushenyi District]] in the [[Western Region, Uganda]].<ref name="Profile"/><ref>{{cite web|location=Nairobi | first=Bamuturaki | url=http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/434746-1377448-wpf9ec/index.html |title=Reverend Doctor Florence Isabirye Muranga: Branded Matooke for All | accessdate=31 Mach 2012 |accessdate=9 November 2017 | newspaper=[[The EastAfrican]] | last=Musinguzi}}</ref>
PIBID established a banana farm on a {{convert|24|acre|0}} piece of land and a modern matooke processing factory in the town of [[Bushenyi]], in [[Bushenyi District]] in the [[Western Region, Uganda|Western Region]] of Uganda.<ref name="Profile"/><ref name="Ban">{{cite web|location=Nairobi | first=Bamuturaki | url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/434746-1377448-wpf9ec/index.html |title=Reverend Doctor Florence Isabirye Muranga: Branded Matooke for All |accessdate=9 November 2017 | newspaper=[[The EastAfrican]] | last=Musinguzi}}</ref>


==Family==
==Family==
Florence Muranga is married to Manuel Muranga since 1978 and together they are the parents of two sons.<ref name="Profile"/>


==Other considerations==
==Other considerations==
In November 2016, the president of Uganda appointed a commission of inquiry into the affairs of Makerere University and named Professor Florence Muranga as one of its nine members.<ref>{{cite web | accessdate=9 November 2017 | url=https://www.mediacentre.go.ug/press-release/president-museveni-appoints-committe-inquiry-affairs-makerere-university | title=President Museveni appoints Committee of Inquiry into Affairs of Makerere University | date=14 November 2016 | publisher=Uganda Media Centre | last=State House Uganda | location=Kampala | archive-date=9 November 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109202721/https://www.mediacentre.go.ug/press-release/president-museveni-appoints-committe-inquiry-affairs-makerere-university | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2006, the Management Forum of the [[British Council]], based in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]], recognized Professor Muranga as one of the "Top Women in 2006".<ref name="Ban"/> At home, she won the Presidential Scientific Innovation Excellence Award at the 2005/06 Presidential Science Awards in recognition of her pomneering work on the matooke fruit.<ref name="Ban"/> Since about 2000, Florence Muranga has served as an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Francis Chapel, the principal [[Anglican]] church at Makerere University campus in [[Kampala]], Uganda's capital and largest city.<ref name="Ban"/>



==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.tookeonline.com/about-us/ Website of Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID)]
*[https://www.tookeonline.com/about-us/ Website of Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828091329/http://www.tookeonline.com/about-us/ |date=2019-08-28 }}
*[http://businessguideafrica.com/presidential-initiative-on-banana-industrial-development-pibid-at-risk-of-having-no-funds-over-its-legality/ Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) at Risk of Having no Funds over its Legality]


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Professor
Florence Muranga Isabirye
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Kabuli Village, Mayuge District, Uganda
NationalityUgandan
CitizenshipUganda
Alma materMakerere University
(Bachelor of Science)
(Diploma Education)
(Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry)
University of Reading
(Master of Science in Food Science),
Occupation(s)Food Scientist, Academic and Corporate executive
Years active1975 — present
Known forAcademics, Scientific research
TitleExecutive Director of the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID)
Spouse(Manuel Muranga)

Rev. Prof Florence Isabirye Muranga is a Ugandan biochemist, food scientist, academic and corporate executive, who serves as the Director General of "Banana Industrial |Research Development Centre (BIRDC)" under the pilot project of Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID), this project started in an effort to do research on value addition on green banana and later to boost the commercialization of Uganda's bananas through research and industrialization.[1]

Background and education

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She was born in present-day Mayuge District circa 1952, and attended "Kabuli Primary School" for her elementary school education. For her secondary school studies, she attended Gayaza High School, a prestigious boarding girls' middle and high school, located in Gayaza, Wakiso District.[2]

In 1975 she graduated from Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, with a Bachelor of Science degree and a Diploma in Education. In 1990, she was awarded a Master of Science in Food Science by the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Later in 2000, she graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biochemistry, from Makerere University.[2]

Work experience

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Before her retirement, Florence Isabirye Muranga was a Professor of Nutrition and Biochemistry in the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition at Makerere University. She has special interest in the nutritional value of the banana fruit, particularity the variety called matooke. She has published widely and extensively regarding her research on the subject.[3]

Banana research

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In 2005 Professor Muranga had an encounter with the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, and the president was impressed with the professor's research. Two years later, the president established the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) and named Muranaga the Executive Director. The program is an aggressive food-value addition effort, yielding a range of matooke byproducts including (a) tooke biscuits (cookies) (b) tooke powder for porridge (c) tooke flour for matooke meal and bread-making (d) matooke chips for snacking (e) matooke flakes for cereal and (f) matooke starch and others.[2]

PIBID established a banana farm on a 24 acres (10 ha) piece of land and a modern matooke processing factory in the town of Bushenyi, in Bushenyi District in the Western Region of Uganda.[2][4]

Family

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Florence Muranga is married to Manuel Muranga since 1978 and together they are the parents of two sons.[2]

Other considerations

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In November 2016, the president of Uganda appointed a commission of inquiry into the affairs of Makerere University and named Professor Florence Muranga as one of its nine members.[5] In 2006, the Management Forum of the British Council, based in London, United Kingdom, recognized Professor Muranga as one of the "Top Women in 2006".[4] At home, she won the Presidential Scientific Innovation Excellence Award at the 2005/06 Presidential Science Awards in recognition of her pomneering work on the matooke fruit.[4] Since about 2000, Florence Muranga has served as an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Francis Chapel, the principal Anglican church at Makerere University campus in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ BGA (9 September 2016). "Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) at Risk of Having no Funds over its Legality". Business Guide Africa (BGA). Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Rukundo, Eunice (16 April 2017). "10 years of transforming the banana into an industrial crop". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  3. ^ RGN (9 November 2017). "Florence Isabirye Muranga's scientific contributions while working at Makerere University and other institutions". Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d Musinguzi, Bamuturaki. "Reverend Doctor Florence Isabirye Muranga: Branded Matooke for All". The EastAfrican. Nairobi. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  5. ^ State House Uganda (14 November 2016). "President Museveni appoints Committee of Inquiry into Affairs of Makerere University". Kampala: Uganda Media Centre. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
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