Dr. Dilys Sefakor MacCarthy is an Associate Professor with the Soil and Irrigation Research Centre of the University of Ghana. She joined the University of Ghana as a Research Fellow in 2007. Before that, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the United Nations University, Accra. She obtained her Bachelor's degree (with honors) in Natural Resources Management at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, in 1999. She was awarded a Master's degree and PhD at the University of Bonn, Germany, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Her central research areas of interest include: (i) Integrated nutrient management and dynamics in farming systems, (ii) Agricultural systems modeling/Impact of climate change on soil productivity, and (iii) The use of biochar as a soil amendment in cropping systems.