Luis Artur, Mozambican, holds a PhD in Sociology of Disasters, a MSc in Rural Development Sociology and a BSc in Agronomy. His current position is lecturer and researcher at Eduardo Mondlane university in Maputo, Mozambique. Artur has published internationally and nationally in books, journals and newspapers. Luis Artur has an extensive experience having been able to produce training material on (participatory) rural development, agriculture, climate change and disaster risk reduction. He has also supervised more than 30 BSc and MSc thesis. Current tasks includes framing the social aspects of environmental changes, integration of climate change adaptation in the national planning, the development of local plans of adaptation and the formulation of M&E system for climate change adaptation.