Former fellow from Ethiopia studies for a PhD degree

Tigist Araya Gessesse from Ethiopia participated in the six-month training course of the Land Restoration Training Programme in 2009. She has an MSc degree in Tropical Land Resources Management and has worked as lecturer at Mekelle University in Northern Ethiopia from 2006. Two months ago, Tigist started a PhD study at the Center for Development Research /Zentrum fur Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of Bonn in Germany. Her research topic is: Dynamics of different soil organic carbon fractions under various land use and management options in Ethiopia. This topic is related to Tigist‘s individual project work that she worked on in Iceland titled Assessment of the impact of different regevegation methods on soil carbon stocks in Iceland The UNU-LRT team wishes Tigist all the best for her PhD studies.