Jean Pierre Nghonda

Jean Pierre NGHONDA is a Senior Researcher at the Climate Change Research Laboratory (CCRL) of the National Institute of Cartography (Yaounde) and a PhD student at the University of Maroua, Cameroon. He read physical geography, then specialized in climatology and tropical hydrology and had his skills enhanced at ITC (The Netherlands) thanks to a grant from Africa-ESA’s TIGER Initiative. A few projects he designed and/or implemented fall at the interface of climate variability or change and society like IVAC (production and dissemination of targeted information on climate variability in Cameroon), Meteo village(training farmers organizations in climate observation), carbon footprints or accountability and climate risks for cement factories. His current research seeks the Traditional Knowledge System aside the modern science understanding that all attempt to cope with or even challenge the Sahelian drying shift from northern Cameroon, near the Lake Tchad southwards. He is involved now in SRM impact evaluation of water availability and extreme events studies over Central Africa