Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience in Sub Saharan Africa

• Climate risk management
• Tropical Africa
• Agroecosystem resilience
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Tranformative agriculture
• Water-Ecosystem-Agriculture Nexus
• Wetland dynamics
• Agronomic management strategies
• Ecological sustainability
• Crop biotechnology
• Agricultural development landscape
• Livestock production
• Landscape processes
• Gender dynamics in agriculture
• climate change
• Climate change management

• Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  Yazidhi Bamutaze

• Department of Agricultural Production, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  Samuel Kyamanywa, Gorettie Nabanoga

• Department of Environmental Science, Soil Science Building, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norway

  Bal Ram Singh

• The Ohio State University , Columbus, USA

  Rattan Lal

Bal Ram Singh, PhD is a professor emeritus at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.  He earned his Ph.D. degree from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India. His program focuses on bioavailability and mobility of heavy metals in the soil and plant system, fertility management and agricultural sustainability ^ 200 scientists from 31 countries participated. He has supervised 76 graduate students and 16 visiting fellows/scientists from 20 countries and published 430 articles, of which 240 in peer-reviewed journals and books.   Prof.  Singh is a fellow of ASA (2004) and SSSA (2005) and recipient of International Award in Soil Science (SSSA) in 2011.  He is currently Chair of Division 3 of the International Union of Soil Science, President of the Norwegian Society of Soil Science and member of the Geomedicine committee –Food, Environment and Health of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Samuel Kyamanya: He obtained his Ph.D in Agricultural Entomology from Makerere University under the African Regional Post graduate Programme in Insect Science at the ICIPE in Nairobi Kenya, and a BSc in Agriculture from Makerere University. He has  over 30 years teaching and research expertise in Agricultural Entomology and Pest Management. He was, Principal of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Science; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, and Head of Crop Science Department at Makerere University.  He was Deputy Vice Chancellor at Kyambogo University, and a Scientist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi Kenya. He was Chairman of the Agricultural Chemicals Technical Committee of the Uganda Agricultural Chemicals Board, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).  He was member of the Advisory Board of Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihood- Iowa State University. He has served as (i) Council member of African Rural University, and (ii) Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Uganda National Coffee Resources Research Institute. Prof. Kyamanywa has been Principal Investigator for 18 research projects, including eight regional projects.  He has supervised 66 MSc and 10 PhD students. He has over 73 publications in International Journals, 68 papers in conference proceedings, three chapters in 3 textbooks, and one handbook.

Rattan Lal, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, and an Adjunct Professor of University of Iceland. He received B.S. from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana; M.S. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. He served as Sr. Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, Australia (1968-69), Soil Physicist at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria (1970-87), and Professor of Soil Science at OSU (1987-to date). He has authored/co-authored 919 refereed journal articles and 535 book chapters, has written 22 and edited/co-edited 70 books. He is included in the Thomson Reuters list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014, 2015), and among the most cited scientists (2014 to 2018). He received the Honoris Causa degree from six universities in Europe, USA and Asia, Medal of Honor from UIMP, Santerdor, Spain (2018), the Distinguished Service Medal of IUSS (2018), and is fellow of the five professional societies. Dr. Lal mentored 111 graduate students and 174 visiting scholars from around the world. He was President of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (1987-1990), International Soil and Tillage Research Organization (1988-1991), Soil Science Society of America (2006-2008) and is the current President of the International Union of Soil Sciences (2017-2018).He is laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize-2018 and Glinka Soil Prize-2018.