Kossi Hounkpati

Kossi Hounkpati is an early researcher with expertise in forestry and forest management, forest landscape restoration, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, ecological monitoring, environmental assessment, and climate change. Kossi Hounkpati is the current Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the BAOBAB synthesis team, Green Resilience Africa - Innovative Approaches for Forest Landscape Restoration and Climate Adaptation in Africa.

With a background in forestry, climate change, socio-ecology, and agricultural economics, Kossi has worked across forestry, climate change, and socio-ecological systems, contributing to advancing innovative approaches for forest landscape restoration (FLR) and climate adaptation in Africa by investigating the interconnection between forest and natural resource management, socioeconomic drivers, and trade-off analysis to foster ecological restoration practices, enhance the socioeconomic resilience, and improve the well-being of rural communities. Their work focuses on generating scientific insights, including decision variables of FLR options at a local level and how existing and anticipated policies influence them. It is grounded in applying geospatial modelling techniques to inform practitioners with a view to long-term land use planning, utilising allometric models for carbon storage to provide tools for estimating long-term climatic benefits, and conducting econometric analyses to help practitioners and public authorities better plan FLR-related activities based on key drivers of FLR adoption.