23.01.2026
Shibire Bekele Eshetu has successfully completed her PhD on 17 December 2025 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
She was hosted at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), working group Development-oriented International Agricultural Research (DIA), formerly Sustainable Land use In Developing Countries (SusLAND). Her PhD title is “Modelling land use transformation in Ethiopia: Developing a multi-stakeholder decision-support framework at the landscape level”.
Her research aimed to better understand land-use dynamics and decision-making processes by integrating economic, environmental, and social dimensions, with the goal of supporting more inclusive, evidence-based, and sustainable landscape-level planning in Ethiopia. The research is conducted in the frame of an accompanying research project to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Forests4Future project, funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Four scientific articles are integral parts of the PhD topic whereby three of them are published in peer-reviewed journals.
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