About the Contributors

I. B. Abaje is afflicated with the Department of Geography at Kaduna State College of Education in Gidan‐Waya, Nigeria.

K. Appeaning Addo is affiliated with Accra Polytechnic at the School of Engineering in Accra, Ghana.

S. O. Aghalino is affiliated with the Department of History at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria.

Olusoji Ajao is affiliated with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Abosede Omowumi Babatunde is affiliated with Peace and Conflict Studies and the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Brain S. Bhembe is affiliated with the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Swaziland in Swaziland. Percyslage Chigora is the Chairperson and lecturer in the Department of History and Development Studies at Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe.

Shimayohol Daudu is affiliated with the Agriculture Extension & Communication Department at the University of Agriculture in Makurdi, Nigeria.

S. K. Dery is affiliated with CSIR‐Oil Palm Research Institute in Ghana.

Ahmadou Sadio Dia is a senior lecturer in the Land Management Division at the School of Islands and Oceans and is also a faculty of Science, Technology and Environment at the University of the South Pacific in the Fiji Islands.

P. B. Eregha is affiliated with the Department of Economics at Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo State, Nigeria.

A. S. Gbadegesin is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Ibaba Samuel Ibaba is affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Olarewaju Oluseyi Ifatimehin is affiliated with the Department of Geography and Planning at Kogi State University in Anyigba, Nigeria.

Richard Ingwe is a senior scholar/executive director for the Centre for Research and Action on Developing Locales, Regions and the Environment (CRADLE) in Calabar, Nigeria.

I. R. Irughe is affiliated with the Department of Economics at Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo State, Nigeria.

Sunday Ishaya is affiliated with the Department of Geography and Environmental management at the University of Abuja in Abuja, Nigeria.

J. M. Kimiti is affiliated with the Kenya Forestry Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

Abike Lawal is affiliated with the Department of Special Education & Curriculum Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile‐Ife, Nigeria.

I. O. Manyanhaire is affiliated with Geography and Environmental Studies at Zimbabwe Open University in Mashonaland West Region, Zimbabwe.

J. T. Matewa is affiliated with the Chebanga School in Mhangura, Zimbabwe.

E. Munhuwa is affiliated with the Department of Languages and Media Studies in Zimbabwe Open University in Mashonaland West Region, Zimababwe.

D. W. Odee is affiliated with the Kenya Forestry Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

Chinyere Grace Ogazi is affiliated with the Department of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture at Kyoto University in Japan.

Felix E. Ojong is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calabar in Calabar, Nigeria.

Issac Okeme is a lecturer in the Department of Agriculture Education at the University of Calabar in Calabar, Nigeria.

Felix B. Olorunfemi is a START/ACCFP fellow affiliated with the Climate Systems Analysis Group in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Olorunfemi is also a research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research in Ibadan, Nigeria.

John C. Olumati is affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State.

A. Osei­Bonsu is affiliated with the Research Scientist Ministry of Food and Agriculture Directorate of Crop Services Coconut Research Programme in Ghana.

Dokun Oyeshola is affiliated with the Department of International Relations at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile‐Ife, Nigeria.

Abul Salam is affiliated with the Department of Geography, Environmental Science and Planning at the University of Swaziland in Swaziland. E. Svotwa is affiliated with the Department of Agricultural Engineering at Chinhoyi University of Technology.

Messay Mulugeta Tefera is a PhD Candidate and senior lecturer at Adama University in Ethiopia.

Daniel S. Tevera is affiliated with the Department of Geography, Environmental Science and Planning at the University of Swaziland in Swaziland.

Michael Anake Ushie is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Calabar in Calabar, Nigeria.

B. Vanlauwe is affiliated with TSBF‐CIAT, C/O ICRAF in Nairobi, Kenya.