Dr Eveline M.F.W. Sawadogo-Compaoré is a senior researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CNRST) at the Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA). She holds a PhD in science, technology and innovation studies in School of Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research is focused on agriculture, environment and food policy.  Her research topics include innovation systems (national, sectoral, organizational), approaches to the diffusion of innovations, and social constructions of technology and innovation. She also look at strategies and methods of ensuring innovation acceptability by end users by questioning policies that are at the heart of development. Dr Sawadogo-Compaoré also addresses issues of unequal access to and use of innovations in agriculture, gender and diversity in agriculture and development from an action research perspective.