OWSD PhD Fellowship

Start in 2014

Ended in 2020

Munthali Maggie

Changes in the condition and composition of the land cover can have significant impacts on climate. These changes alter the sustainability of different biophysical resources including soil, vegetation, water and agricultural resources. Recent developments in Satellite Remote Sensing offer a number of potential benefits for the improved analysis of fine scale land use and land cover change particularly for critical hydrological, forest and agricultural processes. This project proposes to use Land Change Modeller (LCM) and Markov-Cellular Automaton (M-CA) and recoSatellite imagery to model historic land use changes in the Dedza district of Malawi. These data will then be integrated into a model to predict land use change in the study area over the next thirty years with the aim of building resilience against climate change.

Fellowship Publications

Munthali_et_al_2019_Drivers_Land_Use.pdf

July 2015

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The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program promotes food security and economic growth by providing training and collaborative research opportunities to fellows from developing and middle-income countries. Borlaug fellows are generally scientists, researchers or policymakers who are in the early or middle stages of their careers. Each fellow works one-on-one with a mentor at a U.S. university, research center or government agency, usually for 6-12 weeks.

December 2012

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AWARD is a career-development program that equips top women agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their research and leadership skills, through tailored fellowships. AWARD is a catalyst for innovations with high potential to contribute to the prosperity and well-being of African smallholder farmers, most of whom are women. AWARD Fellows benefit from a two-year career-development program focused on fostering mentoring partnerships, building science skills, and developing leadership capacity. Following a highly competitive process, the fellowships are awarded on the basis of intellectual merit, leadership capacity, and the potential of the scientist's research to improve the daily lives of smallholder farmers, especially women.