Dr. Landing MANE is the Director of the Satellite Observatory of Central African Forests (OSFAC) since 2009. He has more than 30 years of experience in various fields, including soil science and agriculture, food security and sustainable development, environmental and social assessment, remote sensing and GIS, statistics and geostatistics, climate change and REDD+ and project and program management. Dr. Mané was a lecturer and supervised Master's and DEA theses of students from the University of Saint-Louis and engineering students from the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Dakar in Senegal.

He is a member of scientific committees of international institutions and evaluators of research projects. Dr. Mané has been a consultant for several national and international institutions (ISRA, OMVS, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), FAO, IUCN), Associate Researcher at the Office of Scientific Research of Overseas Territories (ORSTOM, now IRD/France) and for about ten years Head of the “Monitoring-Evaluation” Department of the National Society for Land Management of the Delta and Valley of the Senegal River (SAED/Senegalese Ministry of Agriculture).

Dr. Landing Mané holds several internship certificates (Universities, FAO, United States Department of State, etc.), a Master's degree and a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) from the University of Dakar. Since 1996, Dr. Mané has held a Doctorate in Physical Geography: Environment, Natural Resources and Remote Sensing option (Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France) and in 1998 a Post-Doctorate from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain La Neuve (UCL, Belgium). In addition to French and English, he is fluent in five (05) West African languages.

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