Dr Ramadjita Tabo, a Chadian citizen, is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) based in Accra, Ghana (September 2009 to date). Prior to that he was the Assistant Director of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in West and Central Africa and a cropping systems agronomist based at ICRISAT-Niamey, Niger. Dr Tabo worked at ICRISAT for 23 years in India, Nigeria, Mali and Niger. He obtained his Ph.D in Agronomy and Plant Genetics from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA in 1985. Dr Tabo won several awards one of which is the prestigious 2007 Nobel Peace prize as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has published several papers in scientific journals and proceedings and co-supervised many MSc and PhD students.