Uche Okpara is currently a PhD research student in environmental sustainability at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, and an assistant lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nigeria. He was a doctoral research fellow on the Social Science Research Council’s “Next Generation” doctoral program (2013–14) and completed his MSc in natural resources and sustainable environmental management at the University of Greenwich, UK (2010), following a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Nigeria. Among Uche’s awards are a Travel grant in May 2014 by the United States Social Science Research Council to present a research paper at the International Climate Change Adaptation Conference in Fortaleza, Brazil, and in February 2013 he won the 2013 African College/University of Leeds Field Research Support bursary for Africa Sustainable Agriculture Research. Conference presentations include: “Does contextual vulnerability matter in climate change and conflict discourses?,” International Conference on Climate, Land Use and Conflict in Northern Africa, Lubeck, Germany (September, 2014); “Rethinking land and security relations under climate change,” Caux Dialogue on Land, Lives and Peace, Caux, Switzerland (July 2014); “Conflicts about water in Lake Chad: are environmental, vulnerability and security issues linked?,” 3rd International Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil (May 2014); “The role of university education in adapting Nigerian agriculture to climate change,” 1st International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Agricultural Management in Nigeria (August 2011); and “Measuring climate change in the Arctic: narratives from agricultural economics perspectives,” Workshop on Applied Meteorology and Climatology at the Natural Resources Institute, School of Science, University of Greenwich (December 2009).