INFOODS data centres operate across multiple regions and countries.
All regions are covered by regional centres. In addition, sub-regional centres have been established to respond to priority needs of specific sub-regions.
Each centre benefits from coordinators who act as an interface with relevant national members and partners.
On this page you will find details of the global and regional data centres, including contact information.
- Coordinator: Fernanda Grande, Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, FAO, Rome, Italy. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: Thingnganing Longvah, Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ food system, Dimapur, Nagaland, India. Contact: [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTER: AFROFOODS
- Countries covered: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Website: https://afrofoods.org/
- Coordinator: Henrietta Ene-Obong, Professor, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: N/A
- Scientific adviser: Hettie C. Schönfeldt, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Contact: [email protected]
SUBREGIONAL CENTRES
1. ECSAFOODS
- Countries covered: Botswana, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Coordinator: N/A
2. WAFOODS
- Countries covered: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
- Coordinator: Ella Marie Campaore, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO (UJKZ) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: N/A
3. CAFOODS
- Countries covered: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles.
- Coordinator: Christiant Kouebou, Programme Technologie Alimentaire et Post-Récolte Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement BP 415 Garoua, Cameroon. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: N/A
4. NAFOODS
- Countries covered: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia.
- Coordinator: N/A
REGIONAL CENTRE: ASEANFOODS
- Countries covered: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam.
- Coordinator: Kunchit Judprasong, Associate Professor, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: Le Hong Dung, Head of Food Chemistry Department, National Institute of Nutrition, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Contact: [email protected]
- Scientific Adviser: Prapasri Puwastien. Contact: [email protected], [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTRE: CARICOMFOODS
- Countries covered: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Coordinator: N/A
REGIONAL CENTRE: CARKFOODS
- Countries covered: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
- Coordinator: N/A
REGIONAL CENTER: EUROFOODS
- Countries covered: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Website: https://www.eurofir.org/
- Coordinator: Paul M. Finglas, Director, Research & Innovation, European Food Information Resource (EuroFIR), Brussels, Belgium. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: Jelena Milesevic. Contact: [email protected]
SUBREGIONAL CENTRE: CEEC/Western Balkans
- Countries covered: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia.
- Coordinators: Mirjana Gurinovic. Contact: [email protected]; Jelena Milesevic. Contact: [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTER: LATINFOODS
- Countries covered: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
- Website: https://lfoods.capchical.com/
- Coordinator: Roberto Saelzer Fuica, Capitulo Chileno De Composición De Alimentos (CAPCHICAL), ex Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: Kristy Soraya Coelho, BRASILFOODS and LATINFOODS user committee, LATINFOODS Portal coordinator. Contact: [email protected]
SUBREGIONAL CENTRES
1. MESO Y CARIBE FOODS
- Countries covered: Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.
- Coordinator: Julieta Salazar de Ariza, Escuela de Nutrición, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC), Guatemala City, Guatemala. Contact: [email protected]
2. SAMFOODS
- Countries covered: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
- Coordinator: Norma Sammán, Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Technologies and Development for Northwest Argentina (CIITED), National University of Jujuy-CONICET, Jujuy, Argentina. Contact: [email protected]; [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTER: NEASIAFOODS
- Countries covered: China, China, Hong Kong SAR, China, Macao SAR, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Taiwan Province of China.
- Coordinator: Zhu Wang, Professor, Department of Food Nutrition Assessment, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, China CDC, Beijing, China. Contact: [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTER: MEFOODS AND GULFOODS
- Countries covered: Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic.
- Coordinator: Ayesha Salem Al Dhaheri, Chair, Nutrition and Health Department, United Arab Emirates University, College of Food and Agriculture; Head of WHO Collaborating Centre in Nutrition, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice-coordinator: Basma Dashti, Research Associate Scientist, Environmental and Life Science Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). Contact: [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTER: NORAMFOODS
- Countries covered: Canada, Mexico, United States of America.
- Coordinator: Marie-France Verreault, Food Composition Manager, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada/Government of Canada. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice coordinator: N/A
REGIONAL CENTER: OCEANIAFOODS
- Countries covered: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- Coordinator: Isoa Korovulavula, Acting Director, Institute of Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific, Private Bag, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji. Contact: [email protected]
- Vice coordinator: Jayashree Arcot, Professor, Food Science and Technology (Nutrition), School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. Contact: [email protected]
REGIONAL CENTER: SARCFOODS
- Countries covered: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
- Coordinator: Rajendran Ananthan, Scientist-E/Deputy Director, Food Chemistry Division, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Telangana, India. Contact: [email protected]
- Special adviser: Thingnganing Longvah, Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ food system, Dimapur, Nagaland, India. Contact: [email protected]