Gloria Kukurije Adeyiga is a research scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, where she specializes in gender, climate change, agroforestry, and the environment. Gloria’s research over the past ten years has been skewed towards enhancing the food security of Northern Ghana’s small farming households. Among the projects she’s worked on is the ‘Regreening Africa’, which was recently awarded the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration Award for its outstanding contribution to restoration across sub-Saharan Africa. The Regreening Africa project aimed at reducing farmers’ vulnerability to climate change, improving the livelihoods of smallholder farming households, and addressing gender inequalities and imbalances in restoration outcomes. Additionally, Gloria has provided consulting services to a number of domestic and foreign development organizations, such as USAID.