About the Speaker
For the past eleven years he has been involved in research studies across East, West, and Central Africa looking into agroforestry tree seed distribution pathways and researching on forest trees that are preferred by farmers and recommended by researchers as compatible with cocoa. He has worked closely and trained stakeholders in tree crops farming in the humid tropics of Africa, particularly Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria to develop a comprehensive framework that packages tree diversification options on cocoa farms in a way that improves, encourages, and promotes local knowledge according to environmental conditions, farmer tree species preferences, market demands, and improved planting material availability. This work culminated into his PhD research which focuses on the resilience of cocoa agroforests to impacts of climate change: looking at the relationships between on-farm shade diversity, climate variables, and cocoa production. This is a collaboration between Copenhagen University and IITA.
