Saverio Krätli (Dr. phil.)
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| Training |
Saverio Krätli studied Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy and Anthropology of Development at the University of Sussex, UK (MA). He holds a doctoral degree (2007) from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), with a research on cattle breeding and generation and management of domestic animal diversity amongst pastoral Wodaabe in Niger (Cows Who Choose Domestication), supervised by Jeremy Swift and Melissa Leach, and examined by Ian Scoones and Brigitte Thébaud. Saverio specialises in the interface between producers, science and policy, with a focus on pastoral production strategies. |
| Career |
From 1999 to 2001, Saverio Krätli was a research assistant at the Institute of Development Studies, working with Jeremy Swift on pastoral development issues. After completing his PhD, Saverio has worked as an international consultant focussing on pastoralism, engaging with the whole spectrum of pastoral development agencies, from grassroots pastoral associations and local NGOs, to governmental, international and Bretton Wood organisations, and research institutes. Since 2009, Saverio has been honorary editor-in-chief of Nomadic Peoples, the historical peer-reviewed journal of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). |
| Experience abroad |
Long term: Niger (Azawagh), Kenya (Turkana and Marsabit), Uganda (Karamoja and Rwenzururu), Ethiopia (Oromia, Ogaden, South Omo Valley and Omorate), and Sudan (West Darfur, and North Kordofan). Short term: Chad, Tanzania, Mongolia. |
| Research |
Saverio Krätli is committed to a trans-disciplinary perspective. He has engaged with issues of conflict, education, tacit knowledge embedded in production strategies, livelihood analysis, pastoral policy analysis, pastoral mobility and production, pastoralism total economic evaluation,. Current research interests focus on the use of environmental variability by dryland production systems, and the gap between drylands/pastoral development theory and methodologies. |
Bulle Dabasso
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| Training | Dabasso holds a Bsc in Natural Resource Management from Egerton University, Kenya, and a Msc in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Agriculture from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. In addition, he did short-term trainings relevant to environmental research and management including Agricultural Product Value Chain (APVC) analysis, gender mainstreaming, Geographical Information System (GIS), applied statistics and proposal writing skills. |
| Career | Dabasso works for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) as senior research officer in the range management section. For more than six years, he has been implementing environmental research in dry land of northern Kenya. His research activities have contributed to scientific knowledge and were published in peer-reviewed journals. |
| Research | Dabasso's research interest includes participatory rangeland management, pastoralism adaptation and resilience to changing climate and improvement of food security and incomes in pastoral societies through efficient and sustainable livestock production and marketing. |
| Current Research Projects | Dabasso is currently undertaking PhD research on Assessing requirements, relevance and importance of stratified systems of pastoral production and marketing of cattle in Kenya, within the collaborative research project on “Reducing Losses and Adding Value in East African Food Value Chains (ReLOAD)” funded by Global Food Security Programme (GlobE) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). His research aims at generating information relevant for improving quality, prices and market access of cattle breeders in pastoral areas of Kenya through stratified systems of production and marketing. |
Katharina Bitzan
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| Education | Katharina Bitzan completed her BA in geography at the University of Cambridge in 2013, focusing both on aspects of physical and human geography. She is pursuing an MSc in socio-ecological economics and policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and completed a semester abroad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined DITSL in order to conduct her MSc thesis in the frame of the RELOAD project. |
| Career | Katharina has completed internships in Kenya and Austria. Alongside her studies, she was engaged in student organizations focused on environmental concerns including deforestation, recycling and carbon management. |
| Research |
Her main research interests are the interactions and interrelationships within socio-ecological systems and global food systems. Her MSc research was undertaken as part of on-going transdisciplinary/action research with PhD student Katharine Tröger. Katharina specifically conducted an actor analysis with a focus on gender, to characterize the social landscape in which people contributing to small-scale pineapple supply chains in Uganda create their livelihoods. |
| Experience Abroad |
Kenya and Uganda |
Hussein Tadicha Wario (PhD Agricultural Sciences)
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| Training | Hussein completed his BSc (Botany and Zoology) at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Kenya) in 2002 and obtained his MSc in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Agriculture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway) in 2006. He conducted his PhD research at DITSL. |
| Career | He has worked for CARE International in Kenya for over 4 years in Northern Kenya. During his time with CARE, Hussein worked in various projects. He worked as project officer for Institutional capacity building project (2007-2008) and in 2009 coordinated a project with multiple components such as livelihood activities, water and sanitation and education among refugee hosting communities in North Eastern Kenya. In 2010 he worked as program officer in Global fund funded project in Nairobi and later in 2011 joined the Adaptation Learning Program as disaster risk reduction officer. In 2011, he joined DITSL in order to conduct his PhD research in the frame of the collaborative research project “Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro pastoral systems in Africa” led by ILRI and funded by BMZ. In 2015, he defended his PhD thesis titled “Integrated assessment of resource use strategies among the Borana pastoralists of southern Ethiopia”. |
| Research Interests |
His main research interest is on areas of pastoral land use systems, communal grazing resource management, resource use conflicts, and climate change adaptation. |








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