Egah Janvier

Janvier Egah is an Assistant Professor in food security, value chains and gender under climate change at the Department of Rural Economy and Sociology, Faculty of Agronomy of University of Parakou (Benin). He is Head of research unit “Food and Nutrition al Security, Gender, local development under climate change of Laboratory Society-Environment (LaSEn). Agricultural Engineer in rural economy and sociology, he holds a Master research in Sociology of Natural Resources of University of Parakou (Benin) under project INuWaM of International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and a PhD in Socioeconomics of rural development at University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) under World Bank Program (PPAAO/ProCAD) and Government fellowship of Benin. Since 2020, Egah is laureate of One Planet Fellowship/ African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) on Agriculture and climate change. He has collaborated with Doctoral School “Sciences Agronomiques et de l’Eau” (EDSAE) and Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) of Belgium in the framework of his postdoctoral assignments. Using the quantitative and qualitative methods, Dr Egah research currently focuses his research interests on climate change, food security, gender, agro-biodiversity, migration, agro-pastoralism, endogenous knowledge, etc. Moreover, Dr Egah works with national and international institutions such GiZ, Helvetas, Technoserve, Union Régional des Producteurs du Borgou Alibori, etc. on evaluation/ capitalization of development programs/ projects, agricultural financing/ warrantage, conception of strategies documents, value chains, food security, etc. Since 2020, he has been a leader in agriculture and climate change through AWARD and Agropolis' One Planet Fellowship program since 2020. In this program, he benefited from a stay at Wageningen University & Research where he received training in impact assessment related to endogenous knowledge, climate change and food security in Development Economics Group.