Dr. Girma Kelboro Mensuro

Research themes

Land use and food security
Knowledge
Development Politics
Innovation and science policy
Governance and conflict

Research countries

Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Nigeria

Research projects

The role of institutions for forest resource and livelihood management in East African forest landscapes (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) [completed]

BiomassWeb: Improving food security in Africa through biomass-based value web: http://biomassweb.org/ [completed]

CIREG - Climate Information to Support Integrated Renewable Electricity Generation: https://cireg.pik-potsdam.de [ongoing]

Teaching

Participatory research methods: Participatory Learning and Action (PLA)/Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) (ZEF disciplinary doctoral course 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/2020)

Theories of institutional change (ZEF disciplinary doctoral course 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/2020)

Institutions, actors and resources (ZEF disciplinary doctoral course 2015/16, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17)

‘Designing’ or ‘crafting’: guarding disciplinary territories of institutional change (ZEF disciplinary doctoral course 2015/16)

Institutional change analysis (ZEF disciplinary doctoral course 2016/17)

Governing transitions in technological change (ARTS Masters presentation, University of Bonn 2018/19)

Biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in tropical countries (Masters presentation, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences 2018/19, 2019/20)

Tutorship of doctoral candidates

Gina Maria Chinchilla Salcedo (ongoing, 2016/17-): Building Resilient Communities after the Conflict in Colombia: memories, identities and contested narratives

Suparna Banerjee (ongoing, 2016/17-): Left Wing Extremism in India: A study of state responses in Bihar and West Bengal

Quyen Mai (ongoing, 2015/16-): Networks and Flows in the Global Governance of World Heritage Sites: The case of Vietnam

Gerba Leta Dufera (ongoing, 2014/15-): The Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System and its Role as a “Development Actor”: the Case of Bako and Yem Woredas, South-western Ethiopia (defended on 06/08/2018)

Getachew Legese Feye (ongoing, 2014/15-): Family Farming and Food Insecurity in Ethiopia: The Role of Risk Perceptions of Family Farmers in Biomass-based Value Webs in Jimma Area (defended on 23/03/2018)

Isaac Mbeche Nyang’au (ongoing, 2013/14-): Boundary Work and Agricultural Innovation Systems: Developing a Conceptual and Methodological Framework for Science-Practice Interaction and Knowledge Generation Using an Example of Push-Pull Technology in Ethiopia (defended on 28/05/2019)

Professional experience

Lecturer of forestry and natural resource management courses at Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa University (Dec. 2002 - Aug. 2009)

Forestry expert in the Commission for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Rehabilitation, Southern Region of Ethiopia (Oct. 1996 - Nov. 2002)

Professional membership: African Forest Forum Forestry Society of Ethiopia African Good Governance Network

Degrees

PhD in Agriculture from University of Hohenheim, Germany

MSc in Tropical Forestry from Wageningen University, The Netherlands

BSc in Forestry from Alemaya University of Agriculture, Ethiopia

Expertise

Social-ecological systems analysis, environmental governance, participatory natural resource management

Funding institutions

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

2022

Berhanu, Y., Dalle, D., Sintayehu, D.W., Kelboro, G., Nigussie, A. 2022. Woody species dynamics in Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve, Southwest Ethiopia. Forest Ecology and Management, 519 : 120313 . Further Information

Tannor, S.J., Kelboro, G., Greve, K., Borgemeister, C., Tischbein, B. 2022. Climate variability and extractivism exposures: understanding household perspectives on livelihood resilience in rural Ghana. The Extractive Industries and Society, . Further Information

2021

Abadi, B., Kelboro, G. 2021. Farmers’ contributions to achieving water sustainability: a meta-analytic path analysis of predicting water conservation behavior. Sustainability, 14 (279) : DOI: 10.3390/su14010279 . (Open Access)

2020

Debela, D.D., Stellmacher, T., Azadi, H., Kelboro, G., Lebailly, P., Ghorbani, M. 2020. The impact of industrial investments on land use and smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 99 : DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105091 .

Förster, J.J., Downsborough, L., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Kelboro Mensuro, G., Börner, J. 2020. Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in the context of South Africa’s biodiversity economy. Policy Sciences, : DOI: 10.1007/s11077-020-09385-0 . (Open Access)

Kabeta , L., Dalle , G., Tolera, M., Kelboro, G. 2020. Bush encroachment and impacts on grass biomass in Senkelle Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary, Ethiopia. Biodiversity, : DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2020.1844595 .

Woldeyohannes, A., Cotter, M., Biru, W.D., Kelboro, G. 2020. Assessing changes in ecosystem service values over 1985–2050 in response to land use and land cover dynamics in Abaya-Chamo Basin, Southern Ethiopia. Land, 9, 37 . (Open Access) Further Information

2019

Kelboro, G. and Stellmacher, T. 2019. Global changes in local governance of the commons: the case of the African Parks Foundation engagement in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. In: Haller, T., Breu, T., De Moor, T., Rohr, C. and Znoj, H (eds.): The commons in a glocal world: global connections and local responses. Routledge. 376-391. Further Information

Le, Q.M., Kelboro, G. 2019. When heritage goes ways apart: heritagization and local involvement at the Complex of Monuments in Hue, Vietnam. Further Information

Leta, G., Kelboro, G., Van Assche, K., Stellmacher, T. and Hornidge, A.-K. 2019. Rhetorics and realities of participation: the Ethiopian agricultural extension system and its participatory turns. Critical Policy Studies, . Further Information

Stellmacher, T., Kelboro, G. 2019. Family farms, agricultural productivity, and the terrain of food (in)security in Ethiopia. Sustainability, 11 . (Open Access)

2018

Legese, G., Van Assche, K., Stellmacher, T., Tekleworld, H. and Kelboro, G. 2018. Land for food or power? Risk governance of dams and family farms in Southwest Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 75 : 50-59 .

Leta, G., Kelboro, G., Stellmacher, T., Van Assche, K. and Hornidge, A.-K. 2018. Nikinake: the mobilization of labour and skill development in rural Ethiopia. Natural Resources Forum, 2(42) : 93-107 .

Leta, G., Stellmacher, T., Kelboro, G., Van Assche, K. and Hornidge, A.-K. 2018. Social learning in smallholder agriculture: the struggle against systemic inequalities. Journal of Workplace Learning, 6 (30) : 469-487 .

Nyang’au, I.M., Kelboro, G., Hornidge, A.-K., Midega, C.A.O., Borgemeister, C. 2018. Transdisciplinary research: collaborative leadership and empowerment towards sustainability of push–pull technology. Sustainability, 10 (7) : 1-26 . (Open Access) Further Information

WoldeYohannes, A., Cotter, M., Kelboro, G. and Dessalegn, W. 2018. Land use and land cover changes and their effects on the landscape of Abaya-Chamo Basin, southern Ethiopia. Land, 7(2) : 1-17 . (Open Access) Further Information

2017

Leta, G., Kelboro, G., Stellmacher, T. and Hornidge, A.-K. 2017. The agricultural extension system in Ethiopia: operational setup, challenges and opportunities. Further Information

2016

Amankwah, K., Shtaltovna, A., Kelboro, G. and A.-K. Hornidge. 2016. A critical review of the follow-the-innovation approach: Stakeholder collaboration and agricultural innovation development. African Journal of Rural Development, 1 : 35-49 . (Open Access) Download [PDF]
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2015

Amankwah, K., Shtaltovna, A., Kelboro, G. and A.-K. Hornidge. 2015. A Critical review of the follow-the-innovation approach: Stakeholder collaboration and agricultural innovation development. Further Information

Kelboro, G. and Stellmacher, T. 2015. Protected areas as contested spaces: Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia, between ‘local people’, the state, and NGO engagement. Environmental Development, 16 : 63-75 .

Kelboro, G. and Stellmacher, T. 2015. Protect and lose? Conservation and conflicts in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. In: Stellmacher, T. (eds.): Socio-ecological change in rural Ethiopia: Understanding local dynamics in environmental planning and natural resource management . Peter Lang Academic Publisher. 17-36.

Thiam, D.R., Babalola, F.D. and Kelboro, G. 2015. Forest resource governance in Cameroon: A case study for Central Africa. Download [PDF]
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2014

Gatzweiler, F.W. and Kelboro, G. 2014. Decentralization and institutional development in East African forest landscapes. ZEF Policy Brief No. 11 Further Information

Negash, M. and G. Kelboro. 2014. Effects of socio-economic status and food consumption pattern on household energy uses: Implications for forest resource degradation and deforestation around Wondo Genet Catchments, South-Central Ethiopia. Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, 30(1) : 27-48 . Further Information

2013

Kelboro, G. 2013. Unraveling the Parks and People Dichotomy: Local Interests and Conflicts in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Doctoral thesis at University of Hohenheim. Margraph Publishers. Weikersheim, Germany Further Information

Kelboro, G., T. Stellmacher and V. Hoffmann. 2013. Urban Needs and Protected Areas: Interfaces between Arba Minch Town and Nech Sar National Park in Southern Ethiopia. Further Information

Kelboro, G., T. Stellmacher, and V. Hoffmann. 2013. ‘Conservationists’ and ‘Local People’ in Biodiversity Conservation: the Case of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 9 (1) : 29-55 .

Seifu, S., T. Stellmacher and G. Kelboro. 2013. Land rehabilitation and female-headed households: Evidence from the Bilate Area Closure Project in Halaba Special Woreda, South Ethiopia. Further Information

2012

Kelboro, G. and Stellmacher, T. 2012. Contesting the national park theorem? Governance and land use in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Further Information

Kelboro, G., T. Stellmacher and V. Hoffmann. 2012. Bridging the researcher-people knowledge gap in biodiversity conservation: The case of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Further Information

2011

Kelboro, G. and T. Stellmacher. 2011. Protected area governance: Lessons learned from NGO endeavours in Nech Sar National Park, Southern Ethiopia. Further Information

2008

Kelboro, G.. 2008. Sacred groves in Sidama, Southern Ethiopia: culture-forest experimentation sites? A case study. In: Darr, B. and Pretzsch, J. Development of innovative teaching modules for higher education in Tropical forestry in Ethiopia, Germany, Kenya and Sudan.

Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
and Downloads

Curriculum_Vitae_9_4_2019.pdf [PDF | 497.03KB]

Senior Researcher

Phone:
+49-228-73-4917

Division/Group:
Cultural and Political Change

E-Mail:
gmensuro(at)uni-bonn.de