Professor 25 July 2016- to date
Professor, Range Ecology and Management, Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gaborone, Botswana
I'm Professor Ayana Angassa Abdeta Range Ecosytem Ecologist with a research interest in effect of climate on rangeland vegetation dynamics, plant-animal interaction, effects of fire on vegetation, bush encroachment and indigenous knowledge.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Hoheinheim DAAD funded research fellowship
Norwegian State Educational loan fund (Lånekassen)
Norwegian Program for Development, Research and Education Fund (NUFU)
Fellow Ethiopian Academy of Sciences
Certicate of Recognition National reaserch council of Ethophia
As Range Ecologist, I have vast experience in a number of streams including effects of drought and drought management policy, indigenous knowledge and role of traditional institution in natural resource management,environmental history, fire ecology, natural resource mangement and land degradation
April 2013: Postdoctoral certificate
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Cologne, Botanical Institute, Range Ecology and Management Group
May 2010: Post-doc Certificate
University of Hohenheim, Institute of Plant Production and Agro-ecology in the Tropics and Sub-tropics and Food security Centre, Stuttgart, Germany
December 2007: PhD in Range Ecology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
January 1999: MSc in Animal Production and Range Ecology, Alemaya University of Agriculture, Alemaya, Ethiopia
July 1990: BSc in Agriculture (majoring in Animal Sciences), Alemaya University of Agriculture, Alemaya, Ethiopia
Certificate of Competence
Professor, Range Ecology and Management, Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gaborone, Botswana
Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Range Sciences, College of Agriculture, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Head of Department of Animal and Range Sciences, College of Agriculture, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Assistant Scientist, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Research Fellow, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Lecturer,Debub Unoversity, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Manager, Borana Cattle Breeding and Improvement Ranch, Yabello, Ethiopia
Project name: Bush encroachment as a process of landscape change in Borana rangeland, southern Ethiopia
To understand the perception of local people about the environment.
Purpose was to encourage grass regrowth