JAMES LYIMO

Senior Lecturer, Institute of Resource Assessment

Education:

BSc: SUA- Morogoro, MSc: Agricultural University-Norway, PhD: University Of Copenhagen-Denmark

Teaching:

Specialised areas of teaching

Agro Ecosystems, Soils and Land Use Management, Research Methods

Research:

Research interests

Natural Resource Management& Environment, Socio-economic aspects, land resource management, Agrarian systems and global changes.

Projects:

Recent projects

1. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food (TEEB)
2. National Ecosystem based Adaptation for Rural Resilience (Ebarr) In Tanzania
3. Feasibility Study “Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Kagera and Geita Regions of Tanzania
4. Monotoring and Evaluation of Ecosystem adaptation in Rural areas

Publications:

Recent publications

1. K Grogan, T Birch-Thomsen, J Lyimo (2013) Transition of shifting cultivation and its impact on people’s livelihoods in the Miombo Woodlands of Northern Zambia and South-Western Tanzania Human Ecology 41 (1), 77-92
2. Solomon Hishe, James .Lyimo, and Woldeamlak Bewket (2017) Effects of soil and water conservation on vegetation cover: a remote sensing based study in the Middle Suluh River Basin, northern Ethiopia. Environmental Systems Research (2017) 6: 26
3. Solomon Hishe, James Lyimo, Woldeamlak Bewket (2017) Soil and water conservation effects on soil properties in the Middle Silluh Valley,northern Ethiopia . International Soil and Water Conservation Research 5(2017) 231-240
4. J.G Lyimo (2017) Land use change and livelihood diversification in Usangu plains, Tanzania Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania 34 (1-2), 57-79
5. S Hishe, J Lyimo, W Bewket (2019) Impacts of soil and water conservation intervention on rural livelihoods in the Middle Suluh Valley, Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia. Environment, Development and Sustainability 21 (6), 2641-2665
6. Nangware Kajia Msofe, Lianxi Sheng, James Lyimo (2019) Land Use Change Trends and Their Driving Forces in the Kilombero Valley Floodplain, Southeastern Tanzania. Journal of Sustainability 2019, 11(2),
7. OI Nnadi, JG Lyimo, ET Liwenga (2019) Socio-economic determinants of vulnerability to climate variability and change across gender in southeast Nigeria Journal of Agricultural Extension 23 (2), 122-137
8. OI Nnadi, ET Liwenga, JG Lyimo, MC Madukwe (2019) Impacts of variability and change in rainfall on gender of farmers in Anambra, Southeast Nigeria Heliyon 5 (7), e02085
9. S Hishe, W Bewket, J Nyssen, J Lyimo (2020) Analysing past land use land cover change and CA-Markov based future modelling in Middle Suluh Valley, Northern Ethiopia .Geocarto International 35 (3), 225-25
10. OI Nnadi, JG Lyimo, ET Liwenga, MC Madukwe (2021) Equity and implications of response strategies on gender relations: Identifying ways of mainstreaming gender into response strategies in Southeast Nigeria Environmental Development 39, 10061