Martin Yemefack is a Land Use System Scientist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cameroon. He has served as an Associate Research Professor in the Institute of Agricultural Research and Development (IRAD) and the UMMISCO unit of the University of Yaoundé 1 as well as Head of the Unit coordinating national Research Activities at the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI), Yaoundé (Cameroon). He has also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA-Cameroon) from 2012 to 2018, President of the Africa Soil Science Society (ASSS) from 2007 to 2016, an Expert Member of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil (ITPS) within the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) from 2013 to 2017, and a Member of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) from 2015 to 2019. He is an agronomist and soil scientist with a PhD in soil science and land evaluation; his career in agricultural research for development has led him to specialize in the use of spatial modeling tools for land, water, land use, and environmental resources evaluation, especially within the tropical farming environment where climate-dependent shifting cultivation is the main practice.