Erick Otieno joined World Agroforestry in July 2013 as an undergraduate intern through the EverGreen Agriculture Partnership programme and ITTACC project under the East and Southern Africa Region. In 2014 he was given a research fellow working under ITTACC project on creating the science to scale Evergreen Agriculture approaches. Within the years, Erick has worked as Agroforestry technical staff, training farmers on agroforestry (tree-crop intercropping) and tree nurseries. He had supported in content development of the partnership website and the Agroforestry Guidance Tool for Africa and coordinated EverGreen Agriculture Partnership programmes in Kenya.
Erick is currently a Research Assistant working under the Regreening Africa Project, Kenya and Somalia with specific interests in agroforestry systems (food security and livelihood improvement), farmer participatory research, land restoration approaches, tree nursery enterprise development, and Institutional mapping and partnership for scaling.
Erick holds a BSc Forestry from Moi University and Master of Environmental Science from Kenyatta University (yet to graduate).