As a senior lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Victoria Olubukola Oyerinde is concentrating on climate change mitigation and the assessment of vulnerabilities among the people living in Nigeria’s forest communities. Oyerinde wants to work toward reducing poverty and improving food security by introducing a range of non-timber resources, such as mushrooms, snails, bush meats, fauna, and medicinal plants. “In Nigeria, 70 percent of the population depends on firewood for cooking,” she explains. “This is causing severe deforestation.”