Dr. Evans Dawoe is an Agroforester, rural extensionist, and farming and land-use systems analyst. He has doctoral training and research in agroforestry with a research focus in the area of organic carbon and nutrient dynamics in cocoa agroforestry systems. He has rich experience and professional expertise in the adoption of gender-sensitive, collaborative management, and capacity-building approaches in the promotion of sustainable farming practices for small farmer development. Presently a Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana, he teaches courses in agroforestry and supervises students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

His research goals are closely aligned with creating a healthy environment, by seeking to balance three long-term goals for sustainable agriculture: Quality of Life, Economics, and the Environment as he strives to understand complex above and below-ground relationships in agro-ecosystems. The philosophy driving my research goals is based on the premise that science should be used to promote the well-being of small-scale farms and help farmers develop more ecologically friendly farming systems by providing alternative management practices. Since solutions to agricultural problems are neither wholly technical nor wholly social, he attempts to integrate both technical and social approaches in his research and its applications.  

He has coordinated several research and development projects including two EU-sponsored projects; Forest Resources Creation Project and Agroforestry, Environmental Care and Job Creation Project in the Sefwi Wiawso District of the Western Region of Ghana both implemented jointly by Ricerca e Cooperazione (Italian NGO) and the Institute of Renewable Natural Resources of the KNUST; the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) -sponsored Commercial Development of Farmer-based Organizations (CDFO) project implemented by the Technology Consultancy Centre of the University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is a collaborating Scientist with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich on a number of projects related to assessing and enhancing the resilience in food systems in Ghana and Ethiopia.