Dr. Nnaemeka Success Esiobu
Dr. ESIOBU, Nnaemeka Success, is an agricultural, climate change, and environmental economist; a Post-PhD Scholar with the Department of Sustainable Impact Platform (SIP), International Rice Research International (IRRI), Philippines; and also a Scholar with Climate, Food, and Farming-Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Development (CLIFF-GRADS).
Dr. Nnaemeka is also a lecturer with the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (UAES), Umuagwo, Imo State, Nigeria, where he is involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses (research methods, econometrics, statistics, agric-value chain, and production economics) to students, conducting and supervising students (UG AND PG) research projects and Thesis, and also engaging community service.
Dr. Nnaemeka is one of the leading experts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emission measurement and mitigation in crop and livestock systems, climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience planning. He has led and participated in several climate change, carbon farming, carbon trading, and GHG emission reduction campaigns, conferences, and workshops. This reflects well in his evidence-based research and engagement with local communities.
Dr. Nnaemeka holds a Masters and Ph.D. degree with Summa Cum Laude, respectively, in Agricultural Economics from Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. Dr. Nnaemeka has also participated and obtained many industrial training certificates from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, with an emphasis on livelihood, production economics, climate change adaptation and mitigation, crop modeling, carbon farming, and GHG emission measurement and reduction in the agrifood system.
In his capacity as IRRI Post-PhD Scholar, Dr. Nnaemeka led a field experiment on GHG emission measurement (particularly methane and nitroxides) and mitigation in rice fields, addressing critical issues related to the measurement of GHG using a closer and static chamber with various water management strategies as well as separating GHG fluxes in a gas lab using gas chromatography. His expertise extended to providing technical assistance with sustainability modeling in field experiments and socio-economic and livelihood research, including involvement and leading in high-profile projects such as GHG measurements and climate change modeling in a field experiment in the agrifood system in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Thailand
Dr. Nnaemeka was meritoriously awarded a Federal Government of Nigeria Postgraduate Scholarship (Nigeria Award), Grooming for a Better Life, a Nigeria Postgraduate, and a CLIFF-GRADS research grant during his doctoral studies. He was also awarded an entrepreneurship grant by Shell Live Wire, Nigeria. Dr. Nnaemeka was part of the team that drafted the National Policy on Inclusive Volunteerism for Nigeria and Nigeria’s Climate Change Act, and serves as the South-East Nigeria Coordinator for the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC)