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Dr Eveline M.F.W. SAWADOGO/COMPAORE is a sociologist, specialized in Science, Technology & Innovation Studies. She holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies, from the Institute for Science and Society of the School of Sociology and Social Policy, at the University of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom. She has joined Burkina Faso’s National Centre for Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST), as researcher at the Environmental and Agricultural Research Institute (INERA), department of Natural Resources Management and Production Systems, in 2015. Eveline’s research area includes competence building system for innovation, Innovation systems (national, sectoral, organisational level), Biotechnology, agricultural innovation and development, gender in science, technology and development. She works in collaboration with Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Science (JIRCAS), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD) International Development Research Centre (CRDI), the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization (CIRAD), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) etc. Eveline is a member of the LEAP-Agri independent International Review Panel (IRP). As such, Eveline has published several peer reviews and reports on agricultural innovation systems, technology transfer, innovation policy, innovation and inequalities, gender in agricultural research and development etc. Her most recent work is a contrubition on ‘Theorising Africa’s Development Problem’, in Olanyinka A. and Adesina J. O., The Development of Africa: Issues, Diagnoses and Prognoses. Dr Eveline is currently a member of the National Agricultural Technological Needs Assessment Working Group, in the framework of the global Poznan Strategic Programme on technological innovation and adaptation to climate change. Eveline has recently been awarded the prestigious panafrican prize AWARD (African Women in Agricultural Research and Development).