Mrs. Lucy Aku Gyiele is a lecturer at the Department of Forest Resources Technology of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. She is a graduate of KNUST (BSc), Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, (MSc) and currently a PhD Agroforestry. Her areas of research interest focus on major topics in Gender and socioeconomic studies in natural resource management.