Johnson Nkem is trained in ecosystem management. He worked previous as a research scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University. His other experiences include working with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Australian Cotton Research Institute and in the Liverpool Plains Catchment in Australia. He is co-coordinating TroFCCA’s regional activities in West Africa.

Monica Idinoba is a geographer with a strong climatological background. She has previously worked with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the West Africa rice development association (WARDA). She is TroFCCA scientist for West Africa. Her current research interest focuses on climate change, variability and adaptation measures on tropical forest, including science-policy dialogue in West Africa.

Yacouba Noël Coulibaly is an environmental scientist who has undertaken research about plant improvement on adaptation to drought, in particular on Sorghum. Yacouba formerly advanced studies in the Centre on regional studies for the improvement of adaptation to drought (CERAAS) in Senegal, where he specialized in plants and water conservation.

Maria Brockhaus is an economist in forestry and agricultural sciences with a research background in conflicts over natural resources, policy analysis, and network analysis. Within TrofCCa she is involved in assessment of vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and financing mechanisms for environmental services, and in the science-policy dialogue.

Fobissie Kalame is trained in natural resource management with a background in environmental science and forest resource management. Before joining TroFCCA, he was involved in an EU-Asian Link Project in Southeast Asia. In TroFCCA, he is focusing on policy relevant methodology for the assessment of vulnerability, adaptation and science-policy dialogue

Denboy Kudejira is a graduate student for a Master of Arts in Sustainable International Development (MA/SID) degree in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University (USA). Prior to that, he served as a Livelihoods Officer for Practical Action Southern Africa (an organization working on poverty alleviation with resource poor communities), and was responsible for coordinating livelihood initiatives in Chimanimani district of Manicaland province in Zimbabwe. Denboy recently joined CIFOR-West Africa Regional Office for a six months internship with the Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation (TroFCCA) project looking at the role of forests in the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) for Burkina Faso and Mali.