Title: Dr.

Name: James Godfrey Lyimo

Institute of Resource Assessment

Position: Senior Lecturer

Current Summarised CV/Profile

Dr. Lyimo born in 1959  is a senior lecturer working  for the University of Dar es salaam in the Institute of Resource assessment to date as Researcher, consultant and lecturer.  He has vast experience on research and consultancy services as well as teaching in the areas of management of natural resources; land use management issues, agriculture and climate change. Among the assignment undertaken include Climate Change and Variability in Highlands-Lowlands Ecosystems of Pare Mountains, Tanzania. The main objective of this project was to establish knowledge base on climate change and variability in the highland-lowland ecosystem of Pare Mountains and enhance adaptive strategies of the local community in addressing negative effects of climate change and variability on their livelihood; Climate change and variability in Tanzania - assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptive capacity of natural and social systems”. UDSM-PITRO programme. The project aims at establishing the patterns and trends of climate change and variability and community perception, impacts, vulnerability and adaptive capacities to climate change in three selected zones, (Coast, semiarid areas and western plateau); Participatory Building of Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector in Tanzania and Malawi. Specifically, the project aimed at Building and strengthening the capacity of climate change vulnerable farming communities to enhanced adaptation in agricultural production through actions (training and research) using innovation system approach; Building African capacity for conserving Biodiversity in a changing climate in the Albertine Region.  Program jointly undertaken by the UDSM-IRA and START International Washington DC. funded by MacArthur Foundation; African Adaptation Program (AAP) the program aimed at supporting integrated and comprehensive approaches to climate change adaptation in Africa by mainstreaming climate change adaptation (CCA) in the national sectoral policies of Tanzania. The programme was funded by UNDP; Land use Planning and Resource Assessment in Tanzania Collaborative research project between the IRA and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) London. Besides the above Dr. Lyimo has been a coordinator of TRECCAFRICA mobility project coordinated by the Stellenbosch university and has also extensively published in various international journals.

Professional Details

Bachelor: SUA- Morogoro

Masters: Agricultural University-Norway

PhD: University Of Copenhagen-Denmark

Specialised areas of teaching: Agro Ecosystems, Soils and Land Use Management, Research Methods

Research interests: Natural Resource Management& Environment, Socio-economic aspects, land resource management, Agrarian systems and global changes.

Recent projects

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food (TEEB)
• National Ecosystem based Adaptation for Rural Resilience (Ebarr) In Tanzania
• Feasibility Study “Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Kagera and Geita Regions of Tanzania
• Monotoring and Evaluation of Ecosystem adaptation in Rural areas

Recent publications

1. K Grogan, T Birch-Thomsen, J Lyimo (2013) Transition of shifting cultivation and its impact on people’s livelihoods in the Miombo Woodlands of Northern Zambia and South-Western Tanzania Human Ecology 41 (1), 77-92
2. Solomon Hishe, James .Lyimo, and Woldeamlak Bewket (2017) Effects of soil and water conservation on vegetation cover: a remote sensing based study in the Middle Suluh River Basin, northern Ethiopia. Environmental Systems Research (2017) 6: 26
3. Solomon Hishe, James Lyimo, Woldeamlak Bewket (2017) Soil and water conservation effects on soil properties in the Middle Silluh Valley,northern Ethiopia . International Soil and Water Conservation Research 5(2017) 231-240
4. J.G Lyimo (2017) Land use change and livelihood diversification in Usangu plains, Tanzania Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania 34 (1-2), 57-79
5. S Hishe, J Lyimo, W Bewket (2019) Impacts of soil and water conservation intervention on rural livelihoods in the Middle Suluh Valley, Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia. Environment, Development and Sustainability 21 (6), 2641-2665
6. Nangware Kajia Msofe, Lianxi Sheng, James Lyimo (2019) Land Use Change Trends and Their Driving Forces in the Kilombero Valley Floodplain, Southeastern Tanzania. Journal of Sustainability 2019, 11(2),
7. OI Nnadi, JG Lyimo, ET Liwenga (2019) Socio-economic determinants of vulnerability to climate variability and change across gender in southeast Nigeria Journal of Agricultural Extension 23 (2), 122-137
8. OI Nnadi, ET Liwenga, JG Lyimo, MC Madukwe (2019) Impacts of variability and change in rainfall on gender of farmers in Anambra, Southeast Nigeria Heliyon 5 (7), e02085
9. S Hishe, W Bewket, J Nyssen, J Lyimo (2020) Analysing past land use land cover change and CA-Markov based future modelling in Middle Suluh Valley, Northern Ethiopia .Geocarto International 35 (3), 225-25
10. OI Nnadi, JG Lyimo, ET Liwenga, MC Madukwe (2021) Equity and implications of response strategies on gender relations: Identifying ways of mainstreaming gender into response strategies in Southeast Nigeria Environmental Development 39, 10061

Membership and Registration

1. Professional     Soil Science Society of East Africa
2. Network for Sustainable Ecosystem in Tanzania (ECONET)
3. African Association for Farming System Research & Extension
4. Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)

Councils/Boards/Committees                   IRA-Board, IRA postgraduate committee

Important Contribution

Patents, major awards, prizes, projects and other recognition: TRECCAFRICA mobility project coordinator