Edmond Totin

Social scientist / Project Manager, SafeVeg

Edmond Totin (Benin) is a social scientist whose research focuses on processes of transformative change at the intersection of reflexive learning, technology, and socio-institutional arrangements. Over the past decade, he has worked extensively on agricultural innovation, food and nutrition systems, climate change adaptation, and governance. His research interests include adaptation pathways, loss and damage—particularly non-economic loss and damage—and the role of Indigenous and local knowledge systems in climate adaptation processes.

Before joining the World Vegetable Center as a Social Scientist and Manager of the SafeVeg project, he served as a Scientist for Policy and Institutions at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and as an Adaptation Expert at Climate Analytics GmbH.

Edmond served as a Coordinating Lead Author of the Africa chapter in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and continues in the same role for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). He is also an Associate Editor of Climate & Development and a member of the Editorial Board of Communications Earth & Environment (Nature portfolio journal).