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Edmond Totin


Senior Consultant
Cotonou
totin@reospartners.com

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Edmond enjoys collaborating with others to innovatively devise solutions that could be valuable to all people.

About

Edmond facilitates participatory processes. He has been working for the last ten years between “science” and “policy”, where he works to bridge the gaps and connect these two worlds. He is a social scientist by training, with expertise in the management of agricultural innovation, climate adaptation, policies, and governance.

Edmond focuses on approaches to developing useful socio-technical innovations in multi-disciplinary research to tackle critical societal and development problems. He is a strong believer that an outcome can only be valuable if it makes sense to the people and is translated into action. For this reason, his research agenda is usually developed with key stakeholders – local community, NGOs, donors – for research and development plans ought to fit in the same basket.

 

 

Background

  • Lecturer at the University of Benin, (2015 till date);
  • Currently leading the AR6-Africa Chapter of the IPCC work as a Coordinating Lead Author;
  • Led a Science-Policy bridging project that aimed at setting a collaboration between various categories of stakeholders in Benin and Senegal, (2017-2018);
  • Worked as the scientist in policy and institution at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Mali, (2014-2017).

Education

  • MSc in Environment and Society, Catholic University of Louvain La Neuve (UCL)
  • PhD in Knowledge Technology and Innovation Studies, Wageningen University (The Netherlands).

Key Publications

Totin, E., van Mierlo, B., Klerkx, L., 2020. Scaling practices within agricultural innovation platforms: Between pushing and pulling. Agricultural Systems 179, 102764.
Zougmoré, R.B., Partey, S.T., Totin, E., Ouédraogo, M., Thornton, P., Karbo, N., Sogoba, B., Dieye, B., Campbell, B.M., 2019. Science-policy interfaces for sustainable climate-smart agriculture uptake: lessons learnt from national science-policy dialogue platforms in West Africa. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1-16.
Totin, E., Segnon, A., Schut, M., Affognon, H., Zougmoré, R., Rosenstock, T., Thornton, P., 2018. Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability 10, 1-20.
Totin, E., Roncoli, C., Traoré, P.S., Somda, J., Zougmoré, R., 2018. How does institutional embeddedness shape innovation platforms? A diagnostic study of three districts in the Upper West Region of Ghana. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 84, 27-40.
Totin, E., Butler, J.R., Sidibé, A., Partey, S., Thornton, P.K., Tabo, R., 2018. Can scenario planning catalyze transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali. Futures 96, 44-56.
Sidibe, A., Totin, E., Thompson-Hall, M., Traoré, O., Traoré, P.S., Schmitt Olabisi, L.K., 2018. Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 84, 94-102.
Dinesh, D., Zougmore, R.B., Vervoort, J., Totin, E., Thornton, P.K., Solomon, D., Shirsath, P.B., Pede, V.O., Lopez Noriega, I., Läderach, P., Körner, J., Hegger, D., Girvetz, E.H., Friis, A.E., Driessen, P.P.J., Campbell, B.M., 2018. Facilitating Change for Climate-Smart Agriculture through Science-Policy Engagement. Sustainability 10.

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