Mr. Vincent Ansah Botchway is a Ghanaian who holds an M.Phil. in Agribusiness and B. Sc degree in Agricultural Science. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Agricultural Economics at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. He has undertaken courses in animal science, crop science, soil science, agricultural project analysis management and marketing. He is a Senior Scientific Officer with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Animal Research Institute (CSIR-ARI) contributing to its research, technology generation/transfer, commercialization activities and training. He has helped to coordinate and implement many projects under the Ghana Agricultural Sub-sector Improvement Programme (AgSSIP), West African Agricultural Productivity Improvement Programme (WAAPP), among others. He is currently supporting the implementation of the CCAFS, West Africa climate change programmes in Ghana. He is the executive secretary to the Ghana Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security Platform and has assisted in establishing ten (10) districts level Climate Smart Agriculture and Science-Policy Dialogue platforms in Ghana which deal with climate change mitigation. He has also trained these sub-national platforms in managing climate stress incidence, etc. He was a member of a team that supported the development and publication of Ghana Climate Smart Agricultural Action Plan. He is a member of the Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa (SAILA)-Ghana Learning Alliance. He was part of the team that developed an Investment Framework for Mobilization of Resources into Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Ghana which was sponsored by FAO. He has relevant experience in broad stream agricultural research including climate change and food and nutrition security programme implementation in rural communities. He has also assisted in many economic and agribusiness studies including modelling econometric determinants and effect of agricultural diversification among cocoa and food crops farmers in the Western Region of Ghana. He currently serves about ten national committees including the national biodiversity clearing house mechanism hosted by the Ministry of Environment Science, Technology and Innovation. He assisted in the coordination of several workshops including Volta basin integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agro- ecosystems (V2), and responding to new opportunities to improve livelihoods for crop- livestock farmers in West Africa. He was a researcher and member of CCAFS Science-Policy Platform in the preparation of the Action Plan of the National Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Security for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA); country profile study on climate smart agriculture practices as well as cost benefit analysis of CSA practices in the Coastal Savannah of Ghana in collaboration with CIAT. He has also assessed value chain segments and gender characterisation studies in Ghana as well as evaluation of gender considerations in CSA practice utilization in selected districts of Ghana. He has also made numerous presentations on CSA both at local and international levels including WBCD CSA and more recently at the NEPAD Africa CSA Alliance Forum in Senegal. Mr. Botchway has received training in gender CSA profiling methodologies, development of agribusiness and Food Processing business Incubation Centres under India-Africa Forum Summit II funded by ICRISAT. He has authored numerous scientific and technical reports.