Ousmane TRAORE received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the School of Economics, Anhui University, China (2018–2023).  He worked as a research assistant at the World Vegetable Center (2021–2024) based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His research interest mainly include: impact evaluation, monitoring and evaluation, food systems assessment, climate change, economics of the environment, and natural resources. He has accumulated nearly 10 years research on food security and resilience in Mali, the performance of the agricultural sector of Burkina Faso, climate disturbance impact assessment in West Africa, and local community adaptive strategies to drought in the Sahel zone. He has also held managerial roles for 13 years; firstly, as director of the Global Development and Innovative Services company. Dr. Traore holds the position of coordinator and head of monitoring and evaluation for Give Water Give Life/CBG-WA NGO. He has to date published 6 papers in peer review journals.