{"id":72342,"date":"2024-07-22T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T10:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=72342"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:40:08","slug":"mamadou-diop","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/profile\/mamadou-diop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamadou Diop"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>Mamadou Diop is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Mamadou teaches on a number of subjects, including environmental sociology, participatory management of natural resource conflicts, sustainable management of forest ecosystems and participatory action research. 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He also has a master&rsquo;s degree in decentralization and local development from the National School of Applied Economics and two training certificates in gender, including one from the University of East Anglia of Norwich. 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