LETICIA MUSESE

Assistant Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Ecosystem science and management, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) 2019. • Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2015.

Teaching:

I am currently involved in teaching the following courses:

• Ecology and Utilisation of Natural Resources
• Community-based Conservation and Extension
• Economics and Legislation for Wildlife Conservation

Research:

I am very passionate in researching on Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLCs) cultural practices and knowledge on wildlife conservation and IPLCs Climate change coping strategies since they coexisted with wildlife and hold ancestral knowledge and expertise on adaptation, mitigation and reduction of climate change effect.

Projects:

1. Population of rodents in East Usambara Mountain, African Centre Of Excellence For Innovative Pest Management And Biosensor Technology Development (ACE &IRPM) 2019 to 2023.
2. Effect of an invasive plant Parthenium hysterophorus on diversity of herbaceous plants on rangelands in Simanjiro, Northern Tanzania. Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CAB –International) 2015-2019.
3. The effect of altitude on infestation rate of ectoparasites on rodents at Uluguru Mountain.2015
4. Horticultural Innovation and Learning for Improved Nutrition and Livelihood in East Africa (HORTINLEA) 2017.   
5. Food Losses Assessment on Tomato Supply Chain in Tanzania. The Case of Morogoro, Iringa, Dodoma AND Moshi regions (FAO) 2017.