**About the Editor**

Delwendé Innocent Kiba, former Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, is a soil scientist at the Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA) in Burkina Faso. He completed his PhD on Rural Development at the Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso (UPB) in 2012. Thereafter, he completed a postdoc in the Group of Plant Nutrition at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. From 2014 to 2021, he was the overall coordinator of a project on sustainable soil use in yam systems in West Africa (YAMSYS project). Kiba has co-authored numerous publications on integrated soil fertility management in Africa and has given numerous communications around the world. He has trained numerous students (BSc, Ing., MSc, PhD). In addition to his work as a researcher, he was the general secretary of the Soil Science Society of Burkina Faso from 2014 to 2017 and the president of this society since 2017. Kiba's research has been distinguished several times, including the scientific prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation in 2007, the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship in 2007, scientific prizes at the Forum of Science Innovation and Technology (FRSIT) in Burkina Faso, finalist at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) scientific competition in 2010, and a co-recipient of the CSRS-Fond Eremitage award in 2019 for his active participation in partnership research. He is affiliated with the African Academy of Science (2021–2025).
