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Born in 1980 in Mtema Village of Northern Malawi. I lived and camped on the pure sand shores of lake Malawi and had beautiful views of Nyika national Park that spans on the west. Like most people in the area, my vision and mission were limited to sky-lake sky-Nyika horizons. I spent most of my early childhood days farming, the main livelihood strategy for the community. Later, I studied forestry that gave me the landscape perspective beyond the managed plot and village horizon boundary. During work at CIAT (2010-2016), I traversed Southern Africa from east to west travelling by car for long distance and on foot for longer time to rural farm areas (including cropped, grazing, reserves) of Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia but also to Ethiopia and Ghana conducting soil health surveillance. I have collected soil samples from more than 44 village locations (dug 17,600 holes) and learnt how diverse and similar the livelihoods in rural Africa are. This has brought me to my current research and career interests: to study a farm as a coupled human-ecological system and consider farmers as active agents whose actions shape the landscapes where they live and beyond.
Cultural awareness: Worked with culturally diverse field teams in 7 countries across Southern Africa; and in Ethiopia and Ghana.
In my quest to unravel the interconnections between humans and the environment, I have used several analytical tools:
• R - digital soil nutrient and soil organic carbon (SOC) mapping
• NetLogo - multi agent simulation of agricultural sustainability
• SAS for heritability among natural occurring provenances of fruit trees.
• Stata and SPSS - socio-economic analysis of drivers of land use change
• Microsoft Excel - analysis of plant growth and above ground carbon stocks
• QGIS and ArcGIS - spatial analysis of remote sensing and GIS data.
• BioDiversity professional – plant diversity analysis
Core responsibilities:
• Proposal writing
• Report writing and journal publications
• Conduct vegetation and soil surveillance
• Conduct agronomic and soil management trials
• Supervise and train field staff
Research Interests
Papers共 24 篇Author StatisticsCo-AuthorSimilar Experts
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Feyera Liben,Wuletawu Abera, Meklit Tariku Chernet, Mohammed Ebrahim, Amsalu Tilaye,Teklu Erkossa,Degefie Tibebe Degefie,Powell Mponela,Job Kihara,Lulseged Tamene
Field Crops Research (2024): 109413
Osman Tahidu Damba,Collins Odhiambo Ageyo,Fred Kizito,Powell Mponela,Stephen Yeboah,Victor Attuquaye Clottey, Birgitta Adoma Oppong-Mensah,Jules Bayala, Faustina Obeng Adomaa, Mustapha Alasan Dalaa, Francisca Martey,Sophia Huyer,
CLIMATE SERVICES (2024): 100453
Powell Mponela,Ermias Aynekulu, Mohammed Ebrahim, Tsion Abate,Wuletawu Abera,Haley Zaremba,Marlene Elias,Lulseged Tamene
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENTno. 15 (2023): 4503-4516
HELIYONno. 11 (2023): e21888-e21888
SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCHno. 1 (2023): 165-166
METHODSX (2023): 102467-102467
Powell Mponela,Ermias Aynekulu, Mohammed Ebrahim, Tsion Abate,Wuletawu Abera,Marlene Elias,Lulseged Tamene
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