Burkina Faso: |  Korodjouma Ouattara | Institut d l'Environment et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)  |
Mali: |  Mamoutou Kouressy | Institute of Rural Economy (IER)  |
Nigeria: |  Abdullahi Bala | Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna-Nigeria  |
Ghana: |  Samuel Adjei-Nsiah | Forest and Horticultural Crops Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Ghana, Legon  |
Niger: |  Abdelkader Mahamane Soulé | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN) |
|  Agali Alhassane | Centre Regional AGRHYMET  |
Ethiopia: |  Kindie Tesfaye | Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)  |
|  Endalkachew Woldemeskel | International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) |
Kenya: |  Ochieng Adimo | Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)  |
Tanzania: |  Freddy Baijukya | The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) |
|  Joachim Makoi | Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives  |
Uganda: |  Godfrey Taulya | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) |
|  Kayuki Kaizzi | National Agriculture Research Laboratories (NARL)  |
Zambia: |  Regis Chikowo | University of Zimbabwe  |
South Africa: |  Linus Franke | University of the Free State  |
|  Abraham Singels | SASRI  |
Botswana: |  Nnyaladzi Batisani | Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resource |