Three decades on the land — and counting.

A career built on one question.

How do we feed a continent, build its wealth, and protect its land — at the same time?

Dr. Ayenor has answered that question across thirty years of fieldwork, advisory roles, and applied research in Ghana and across Africa. His doctoral work at Wageningen University in the Netherlands focused on participatory action research with cocoa farmers — pioneering organic and integrated pest management approaches that put farmer knowledge at the center of agricultural reform, rather than at the margins of it.

That principle — that sustainable land use cannot be imposed from above, only built with the people who live on it — has shaped every chapter of his work since. As an International Finance Corporation consultant, he trained farmers across northern Ghana on the Warehouse Receipt System, helping them use their grain as collateral and transform their bargaining power. As Deputy Chief Economist of Development Bank Ghana, he worked to bridge the chasm between private capital and the agricultural sector, designing the conditions under which long-term investment could flow to the people who actually grow the country's food.

Today, as CEO of STRED Consult Ltd., he leads a team of experts delivering practical, evidence-based solutions to governments, donors, and private investors working on Africa's most consequential land-use questions: how to finance sustainable agriculture, how to govern natural resources without destroying them, how to keep youth on productive land, and how to turn decades of policy failure into a workable future.