Biography

Djalal Arinloye has over 15 years’ experience in the areas of marketing, value chains, technologiesup- and out-scaling, and public–private partnership development in West and Central African countries and institutions. He holds a PhD in management studies and business administration from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His current research interests include marketing, community enterprises and value chain development, gender mainstreaming, forest management, soil fertility mapping, land restoration, climate change adaptation and mitigation. Djalal serves as coordinator for the following projects: Agroforestry Technologies Scaling-up, Regreening Africa Sahel, Climate Smart Agriculture Agroforestry and Fodder Crops Promotion, Benin Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Forest Management, West Africa Regional Soil Fertility Mapping, and Spatial Assessments of Changes in Soil Health Indicators in Benin. He is very passionate about innovative and transformative research among communitiesin Africa.