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AgMIP Eastern Africa Regional Workshop 

Testing and application of methodology to assess impacts of climate change on Maize production in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

03-07, December 2012

Tokuma Hotel, Adama, Ethiopia

Workshop objectives

•           Refresh and enhance the skills of the team members in using and applying climate, crop and economic models and other tools
•            Conduct a comprehensive assessment of impacts of climate variability and change on maize production in selected districts of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Expected outputs

•            Improved skills in the use of climate, crop and economic models and other tools
•            Better understanding of the methods and protocols to be used in assessing the climate change impacts on maize productivity and on household food security
•            Detailed report with results from the preliminary assessment on climate change impacts

AgMIP Eastern Africa Project Members who participated in the Inception Workshop
Aug 07 - 09, 2012
Entebbe, Uganda
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K.P.C. Rao

Principal Scientist (ICRISAT/ICRAF)

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InternationalCropsResearchInstitute for the SemiAridTropics

Science with a Human Face

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United Nations Avenue

P.O. Box 39063-00623

Nairobi, Kenya 

Tel: 254-20-7224192 (Direct)

      254-20-7224000 (Operator)

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Anthony Oyoo | East and Southern Africa

ICRISAT | Resilient Dryland Systems

 United Nations Avenue, Gigiri.

Tel: +254 20 7224575 | Cell +254722654907

 www.icrisat.org

 www.worldagroforestrycentre.org

Jackline Bonabana-Wabbi (PhD)
Lecturer and Postgraduate Programmes Coordinator
Department of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

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Mesele Atsbeha GebresilassieLecturer in  Geoinformaticsemail: meseleagw@yahoo.comMob: 00251911390219Mekelle, University

PETER NICKY MLONGANILE  (From TMA)

TASKS:  Head Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Section

  Expert in using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model

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Moses M. Tenywa is the Uganda AgMIP Leader with background in Soil Science and trained in Crop Modelling in Israel and has worked with DSSAT and APSIM. He is currently the Director of Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute, Kabanyolo of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Makerere University.

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Yosef Welderufael Kinfe

Senior Technical Expert in Climate and Environment Initiative at ATA

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)

Haile Gebre-Selassie Rd, Zequala Towers, 8^th Floor

(In front of Bambis NOC Station)

email: oyosef@yahoo.com

Tel +251-(11)557-0643

Cellphone: +251-(920) 74-1193

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Fredu Nega (PhD.)

College of Business and Economics

Mekelle University

Mekelle, Ethiopia

Carolyn Nandozi

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Rich M. Mulwa, Ph.D.
University of Nairobi,
Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP),
Environmental Policy Division,
P.O Box 30197,
Nairobi 00100,
Kenya.
Cell:+254-710-561626
Alternate E-mail: richard.mulwa@uonbi.ac.ke

Mary Kilavi

Senior Meteorologist

Kenya Meteorological Department

Nairobi County Meteorological Services Officer

Josphine Nampijja
 PGD Student at the College of Computing and Information Sciences
at Makarere University

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Girma Mamo (PhD.)
Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute, Melkasa
Adama, Ethiopia

 

Atkilt Girma Gebrekidan

Job title: Lecturer, at Mekelle University Educational background: Geoinformatics, soils and plant sciences Research interest: Modelling soil-landscape, erosion and sediment transport, vegetation growth and land cover.

Amina Abdelkadir Mohammedshum
Lecturer in Geoinformation Science
Institute of Geoinformation and Earth Observation Sciences (i-GEOS)
Mekelle University
Mekelle, Ethiopia

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Deus Bamanya

Head of Data Processing and Climate Modeling

Uganda Department of Meteorology

P. O. Box 7025, Kampala

Office Tel: +256-414-251798

Cell Phone: +256-783-057966/+256-772-38080