Marcellin Awouminassi Atakoun is currently a PhD candidate in Climate Change and Land Use (CCLU) under the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use program at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He has an MSc in agronomics sciences, specialising in Soil-Water Environment and Modelling. He has been part of the Hydraulics, and Environmental Modeling Laboratory (HydroModE Lab, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou) researcher’s team in collaboration with the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier, France to work on cover crops’ contribution for conservation agriculture in Northern Benin. He is also a research assistant at the Integrated Production Systems Innovation Lab and Sustainable Land Management, University of Parakou, Faculty of Agronomy. He was privileged to work on biochar amendment under maize and cotton culture in Benin.