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Gregoire Ngono

Email: gregoire.ngono@gmail.com

Director,Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD)

Dr. Gregoire Ngono is Director of the Specialized Research Center on Forest and Environment

(CEREFEN). A native of Cameroon, he has experienced the challenges and successes associated with African agriculture and forestry. Under his leadership since 2006, CEREFEN research capacity, staff, facilities and partners are expanding.

Dr. Ngono is a Forest management Planner with extensive experience in silviculture, agroforestry,

biodiversity conservation, plant breeding and natural resource conservation.  He completed additional training from many short-term professional courses through the world, including: farming systems, cereal production, alley farming systems, and molecular markers for forest trees genetic resources.

He was granted a scholarship from the World Bank Funded Agricultural Project in Cameroon to pursue a degree program in the USA. He was awarded a M.Sc. degree in Agriculture from Sam Houston State University, USA in 1994 and earned his Ph.D. in Forestry at Texas A&M University in 1998. At the completion of his graduate studies, he rejoined the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) of Cameroon as Senior Scientist in charge of Forest Management Planning in the Tropenbos-Cameroon Programme. He was later appointed Scientific Coordinator of Forest and Environment Research activities in the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) until 2004, to become Director of the Specialized Research Centre on Forest and Environment (CEREFEN).

Dr. Ngono teaches, supervises and mentors B.Sc. and M.Sc. students. He is in charge of developing and managing a set of field activities to test hypotheses relating to the response of biodiversity to different types and patterns of forest modification and developing and testing methodologies for assessing and monitoring biodiversity on managed forest (criteria and indicators) as a tool for adaptive management. Sometimes, he provides technical assistance to concessionaires and logging companies in development and implementation of new planting designs and silvicultural regimes, high value timber species (species selections, nursery techniques), and fast growing industrial species (improvement and seed production programme). He has been a National Independent Consultant for OAB/OIBT projects.

Through his leadership at CEREFEN, Dr. Ngono is helping to foster the next generation scientific community in central Africa, and beyond.

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Dr. Gregoire Ngono

Country of birth: Cameroon

Nationality:  Cameroonian

Position Title: Director

Institution: Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD)

Contact Address:

Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD)

Email: gregoire.ngono@gmail.com

Tel: +237 96 64 05 60/77 66 34 34

Specialty Area:

Education:

1984  B.Sc., Agriculture, Dschang University Centre, Cameroon

1994  M.Sc., Agriculture (Agroforestry), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1998  Ph.D., Forest Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

Positions held (since terminal degree):

2006 to date  Director of the Specialized Research Centre on Forest and Environment (CEREFEN).

2002-2004  Scientific Coordinator of the Forest and Environment Research activities in the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD)

1999-2001  Forest management Planner in the Tropenbos Cameroun Programme, Kribi, Cameroon

1988-1990  Assistant National Coordinator in the "Semi Arid Food Grain Research and Development" (SAFGRAD), IRA Station, Garoua, Cameroon

Expertise:

-          Breeding and genetic resource conservation

-          Natural resource conservation

-          Silviculture

Honors and Awards (since terminal degree):

A selection of major research accomplishments: Discoveries and first reports

1)                  Monitoring biodiversity on managed forest (criteria and indicators) as a tool for adaptive management.

A Selection of refereed journal publications (2002-present)

Ngono G. 2010. The future of a Transboundary Conservation Area (TBCA) in a large forested landscape in the Congo Basin depends on benefits accruing to local people. International Tropical Timber Organization. Tropical FOREST update. 20(2) : 11-13.

Manuel Ruiz Perez, D. Ezzine de Blas, R. Nasi, J.A. Sayer, A. Karsenty, S. Marieke, C. Angoue, N. Gami, O. Ndoye, G. Ngono, J.C. Nguiringuiri, D. Nzala, B. Toirambe, Y. Yalibanda. 2006. Logging in the Congo Basin: Socioeconomic constraints, environmental impacts and drivers of change in the Congo Basin as perceived by logging companies. Environmental Conservation. 33(4): 316-324.

Ngono, G. 2005. Forets camerounaises : chronique dune disparition imminente. Coraf Action : Lettre d Information pour la Recherche et le Developpement Agricoles en Afrique de l Ouest et du Centre. 34 : 11-12

Ngono, G. & C.A. Bonjoh. 2005. Understorey regeneration of Lophira alata as affected by seed tree size and growing conditions. Tropicultura. 23(2): 71- 76.

Ruiz Perez, M, D. Ezzine de Blas, R. Nasi, S. Marieke, S. Jeffrey, C. Angoue, N. Gami, O. Ndoye, G. Ngono, J.C. Nguiringuiri, D. Nzala, B. Toirambe and Y. Yalibanda. 2005. Logging in the Congo Basin: A multi-country characterization of timber companies. Forest Ecology and Management. 214: 221-236.

Ngono, G and R.R. Fisher. 2004. Nutritional diagnoses in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) established stands using three different approaches. Forest Ecology and Management. 203(1-3): 195-208.

Ruiz Perez, M, D. Ezzine de Blas, R. Nasi, S. Marieke, S. Jeffrey, C. Angoue, N. Gami, O. Ndoye, G. Ngono, J.C. Nguiringuiri, D. Nzala, B. Toirambe and Y. Yalibanda. 2004. Who is logging the Congo? a preliminary analysis of the forest industry in the Congo Basin. ITTO Tropical Forest update. 14(4): 3-6.

Ngono, G. and R. Lane. 2004. Decomposition and N mineralization of three selected alley-cropped legumes. Annales des Sciences Agronomiques du Benin. 6(2): 185-203.

Book chapters:

Drizz E, B. Mertens, M. Ruiz Perez, P.O. Cerutti, G. Ngono. 2006. L exploitation forestiere au Cameroun : un laboratoire institutionnel de la sous-region. In Nasi, R., Nguinguiri, J.C. and Ezzine, D. (eds). Exploitation et gestion durable des forets en Afrique Centrale. Diffusion, L Harmattan. Paris, France. pp: 123-152. ISBN : 2-296-01617-0.

Invited presentations at major international conferences (2002-present-Maximum 8)

Ngono G. 2010. International Conference on Biodiversity Conservation in Transboundary Tropical Forests. Quito, Equador. 21-24 July 2010.

Ngono G. 2010. Monitoring des stocks et flux de carbone dans le Bassin du Congo. Atelier Regional du COMIFAC. Brazzaville, Republique du Congo. 2- 4 February 2010.

Ngono G. 2009. FORNESSA Networking Week, Conference Room Sun Hotel. Blantyre, Malawi. 22-26 June 2009.

Ngono G. 2007. Claims on Forest Land and Forest Resources of Cameroon. A Global Vision of Forestry in the 21th Century. Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto. Toronto Canada. 30 September - 3 October 2007.

Ngono G. 2007: Natural regeneration of forest species with high economic value in southern Cameroon rain forest. IIeme International Symposium on Ecological Restoration. Bolivar Convention Centre. Santa Clara, Cuba.

Ngono G. 2004. IUFRO Division 1 Conference: Meeting the challenge, Silvicultural Research in a changing word. La Grande Motte, Montpellier, France. 14-18 June 2004.

Research Grants (2004 – present):

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