Michael Elias Mgalula

Michael Elias Mgalula (PhD) Agricultural Sciences

Email: mgalulamike@yahoo.com; mgalulamike@googlemail.com; michael.mgalula@udsm.ac.tz

P.O. BOX 2513, MUCE Iringa, Tanzania

Phone: +255 742 343093
Michael Elias Mgalula studied bachelor of Art with Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2006. He obtained MSc in Natural Resource Assessment and Management at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2008. He holds a doctoral degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Kassel, specialised in land use change as one cause of greenhouse gas emission and carbon sequestration variations in rangelands.

Since completed his MSc in 2008, he worked as an assistant lecturer at Mkwawa University College of Education, a Constituent College of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. In October 2010, he joined a language course in Freiburg Germany, and in April 2011, he joined the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel in Witznehausen Germany for his PhD. His training was collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Kassel in Witzenhausen and the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) in Witznehausen. His PhD research was 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 2016, he defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Assessing trends in land use change in the Borana rangeland Ethiopia as one cause of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration variations’’. Currently, Michael is back in Tanzania and working at Mkwawa University College of Education a Constituent College of the University of Dar es Salaam as a lecture and researcher in the Department of Geography.

His main research interest is on land use systems in the rangelands, areas of pastoralist and farming practices, Agroecology, Forest and land-use, Ethnobotany and Apiculture practices. Analytical approaches include qualitative and quantitative techniques, statistical modeling and applications of GIS and Earth Observation/Remote Sensing in environmental and ecological systems.