Montcho is an associate researcher at the Animal Science Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic). She holds her PhD in Animal husbandry and livestock production systems in 2018. Her research work was titled “Nutritional values and valorization of crop residues and agro-industrial by-products in the feeding of ruminants in Benin in the form of multi-nutritient blocks”.

Marthe has completed two scientific research internship at Livestock Development and Environment Research Laboratory of University Nazi Boni (Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso).  She has several scientific publications in French and English. Her research interests are animals feeding, pastoralism, animal’s resources management, livestock and environment preservation, Gender and Economic of Livestock systems. Marthe Montcho has presented her research findings at several regional and international conferences and workshops.

Project - Adaptation strategies of dairy livestock women cooperatives to climate change in Benin, Niger and Burkina-Faso (West Africa)

The project aims to explore different strategies adopted by dairy livestock women cooperatives to face climate change in three West African countries (Benin, Niger, Burkina-Faso) economically based on livestock and milk production. This is an extension of her PhD work which aims to assess and find out the strategies for developing livestock value chain and ensure food security under climate change. The dairy women in Sub-saharan Africa are facing severe constraints in adoption of dairy production technologies and maintaining the quality and clean milk production. Milk being a very nutritious medium to almost all kinds of microorganism, gets spoiled very quickly when it is exposed to outside environment. With dry season becoming too long and increasingly warmer, the collection of milk of good quality is a great challenge. It is agreed that dairy cooperatives productivity is highly affected by climate change. Climate directly affects the quantity and the quality of the milk. But there is no previous study on adaption strategies used by dairy women livestock cooperative to meet the challenge of climate change.  She is going now to survey the factors determining and characterize strategies used by dairy women cooperatives to face climate change, evaluate the impact of each strategy on milk production and milk quality, assess the effect of each adopted strategies on women income, simulate and model the best strategies that could be used by dairy women cooperatives to address climate change, improve milk production and their profit.