'Can agroforestry improve soil fertility and carbon storage in smallholder banana farming systems?'
>> Joshua Zake, Stephan A. Pietsch, Jürgen K. Friedel and Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern (2015), Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, doi: 10.1002/jpln.201400281
‘Farmers' perceptions of implementation of climate variability disaster preparedness strategies in Central Uganda.’
>> Zake, J. and Hauser, M. (2014). Journal of Environmental Hazards. doi:10.1080/17477891.2014.910491
Joshua Zake is a Natural Resource Agricultural Soil Scientist, with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture specialising in Soil Science at Makerere University in Uganda. He has a Masters of Science in Soil Science from the same Institution and his thesis was focussed on,'Enhancement of cattle manure quality and utilization for crop production on smallholder farming systems in Central Uganda.’
Over the past ten years he worked for Environmental Alert – a National Non Governmental Organisation in Uganda. He has experience and exposure on issues of sustainable agriculture and natural resources management and related policy analysis, lobbying and advocacy at community, local, national and international levels. He has engaged with smallholder farmers, policy makers, political leaders, researchers and scientists among others in the field of agriculture and natural resources management.
In November 2011, he joined the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences for his Doctoral Studies. He is based at the Institute of Soil Research and the Centre for Development Research and his thesis focuses on, 'Understanding the impacts of climate change and variability on key selected smallholder banana farming systems in Central Uganda around the Lake Victoria basin.’ The study is funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation through appear - the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development.
