Joseph holds a master's degree in Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture from Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST). Additionally, he has a bachelor's degree in Agribusiness Management and a Diploma in Farm Resource Management from Egerton University. He is currently working as a Graduate Assistant at the School of Agricultural and Food Sciences of JOOUST. He is also an independent research consultant dealing in questionnaire design, experimental research designs, data collection, data analysis, report writing, systematic literature reviews, project baseline surveys, and evaluations. He previously worked as a Value chain officer and acting value chain manager at the National Potato Council of Kenya (NPCK), where he was in charge of; planning, coordinating, and organizing marketing forums and potato field days in potato-producing counties and conducting value chain analysis by mapping various potato actors (farmers, input and service providers and market outlets) in Kenya. He also oversaw the transition of viazi soko digital platform from USSD to a web based digital tool to facilitate farmers’ access to markets and farm inputs. He has training in; Scientific Data Management using R Programming Language from the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and Academic Data Analysts (ADA), Remote Food Security monitoring and data collection from the World Food Programme (WFP), and Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

Joseph is a researcher with interests in agricultural value chains and sustainable food systems transformation through utilization of edible insects as food and feed. Currently he is working on the mass rearing of desert locust for utilization as food and feed at the JOOUST insect farm.