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
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food (TEEB)
- National Ecosystem based Adaptation for Rural Resilience (Ebarr) In Tanzania
- Feasibility Study “Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Kagera and Geita Regions of Tanzania
- Monotoring and Evaluation of Ecosystem adaptation in Rural areas
Publications:
Recent publications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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),
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
