Prakash Kant Silwal is a development specialist with more than 25 years of experience developing and managing agriculture livelihood, food security, biodiversity, and natural resource management projects in the fragile, conflict, and humanitarian contexts of South Asia (Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan), the Middle East (Yemen), and Africa (Sudan, Liberia, Chad, and Nigeria). Currently, he is a principal specialist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA – A CGIAR entity) based in Nigeria. There he leads the design and implementation of agriculture livelihoods projects in the conflict-affected areas of northeast Nigeria. He has a MS degree in environmental toxicology from Clemson University and is a citizen of Nepal.