Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang / Biography
Georges Djohy is graduated with a Diploma in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology from the University of Parakou (Benin). In 2012 he won a Deutsche Akademiker Austache Dienst scholarship, making it possible for him to complete his doctoral research at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.
He is awardee of several research programs such as the African Climate Change Fellowship Program and the program on Interdisciplinary and Participative Research on Ecosystems, Climates and Societies in Western Africa. He has successfully carried out studies with different national and international centers, including the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research and the Institute of Researches and Development Methods Applications in France.
Scientific Profile
From 2013
PhD Student, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen. Dissertation project: "Pastoralism and Socio-technical Transformations in Northern Benin: Implications for Environmental Change Policies in Benin". (Doctoral supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Schareika, Dr. Ange Honorat Edja)
Since 2009
Research Assistant, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou, Benin (Tutor: Dr. Ange Honorat Edja; +229 95188247, honorat.edja@gmail.com)
Research Assistant, Pastoralism and Climate change, Laboratory of Applied Ecology (LEA), Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin (Tutor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Houinato, +229 95400781; mrhouinat@yahoo.fr)
2012
Benin Focal Point of JatroREF Project, "Establishing socio-economic and technical aspects of Jatropha-based agrofuels chains in West Africa" Institute of Researches and Development Methods Application (IRAM), Montpellier, France (Supervisor: Mrs Laure Steer: +33 (0)4 99 23 24 61, Email: l.steer@iram-fr.org)
2011 - 2012
Science Fellow, African Climate Fellowship Program (ACCFP), Institute of Resource Assessment University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (Host Institution: Nigerian Institute of Economic and Social Research-NISER (Tutor: Prof. Dr. Femi olokesusi, femioloke@yahoo.com)
Research Topic: "Agent-Based Modeling of Herders? Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies Regarding Water Resources in Climate Change Context in Alibori/Benin"
2010
Dipl. Ag. Eng. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou, Benin
Ag. Eng. Thesis Topic: "Transhumance and climate change: analysis of socio-political and organisational dynamics of herders? adaptation in Alibori (North-Benin)". (Research funded by the Program on Interdisciplinary and Participative Research on Ecosystems, Climates and Societies in Western Africa; and supervised by: Dr. Ange Honorat Edja; +229 9518 8247, honorat.edja@gmail.com and Prof. Dr. Marcel Houinato, +229 95400781; mrhouinat@yahoo.fr)
2004 - 2009
Studies of General Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou, Benin; (funded by the Excellency Grant of the Government of Benin).