Biography

Alain R. Atangana has been a Tree Crops Agroforestry Systems scientist at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) since July 2019. Alain joined ICRAF in July 2019. Based in Abidjan, he is responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring smallholder agroforestry systems for a suitable and equitable rehabilitation of the cocoa landscape in Côte d’Ivoire, and in the West and Central Africa Region at large.Additionally, he designs, plans, and executes the restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity in degraded forest and savannah landscapes using nature-based solutions. These approaches are participatory and farmer-driven, incorporating ground-truthing data and remote-sensing techniques for monitoring restored ecosystem services. Alain holds a PhD in forest sciences from Université Laval, Québec. Prior to joining ICRAF, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and Université Laval, both in Canada.He has accumulated several years of experience working on agroforestry and tree domestication in the humid tropics of Africa. Alain is also the principal author of "Tropical Agroforestry"