About the Authors

Jean M. Mondo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctoral School of Agroecology and Climate Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Department of Agriculture, Université Officielle de Bukavu (UOB), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Géant B. Chuma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

geantchuma@uea.ac.cd, geant.ch@gmail.com

Affiliations Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctoral School of Agroecology and Climate Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Laplec-UR SPHERES, Department of Geography, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Henri M. Matiti

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jacques B. Kihye

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Espoir M. Bagula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Katcho Karume

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctoral School of Agroecology and Climate Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Charles Kahindo

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Doctoral School of Agroecology and Climate Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Faculty of Sciences, Université Officielle de Bukavu (UOB), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Anthony Egeru

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation RUFORUM, Makerere University Main Campus, Kampala, Uganda

Jackson-Gilbert M. Majaliwa

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation RUFORUM, Makerere University Main Campus, Kampala, Uganda

Paterne A. Agre

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Patrick A. Adebola

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Asrat Asfaw

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.