Léopold K. Fakambi

Léopold Kocou Fakambi (1942 to 2021) was a Beninese agronomist, engineer, nutritionist and academic. Born in Lomé, he attended the Lycée Béhanzin in Porto-Novo, studied in Besançon and Paris, entered the Institut national agronomique in 1964 and defended his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in 1970. He became professor of plant physiology at the University of Benin and then founding dean of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences at the University of Abomey-Calavi, and for many years sat on the Council of Administration of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan. He co-founded the Formation Internationale en Nutrition et Sciences Alimentaires, directing it from 1992 to 2000, and was a founding member of the Conseil national de l'Alimentation et de la Nutrition in Benin. He was a Knight of the National Order of Benin.