He was recently invited to make a presentation to the standing committee on Agriculture and AgriFood, Government of Canada, on the role of agroforestry land-use systems towards climate change mitigation and is on the advisory committee for the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC)’s Voluntary Carbon Offset Program. He received his Ph.D in agroforestry from the University of Guelph, Canada in 1998 and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2011 for his agroforestry and food security work in Ghana (west Africa).