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ARDHI UNIVERSITY

Dr. Kissoly Luitfred Donacian

         

Title: Dr.

Name: Kissoly Luitfred Donacian

School: School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences (SSPSS)

Department:  Economics and Social Studies

Role: Lecturer

 Current Summarized CV:

Luitfred D. Kissoly (PhD) is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Social Studies, under the School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences (SSPSS) at Ardhi University. He holds a B.A and M.A in Economics, both from the University of Dar es Salaam, and a PhD in Development Economics from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leiniz University of Hannover, Germany. His PhD research focused on the food security implications of smallholders’ integration in agricultural value chains. Apart from teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, he undertakes research and consulting on diverse areas within development economics. His key areas of interest and expertise include, among others, the economics of food security, agri-food value chains, urban food systems, community and household-level welfare analysis, and related aspects of development economics.

Ongoing research:

  1. Title: Increasing the Sustainability of Urban Foodscapes through Agri-Food Entrepreneurship, Position held: Assistant Team Leader (Socio-economy Domain), Date:2021 – 2025, Funder: VLIR-UOS-IUC, Belgium
  2. Title: social networks of micro-entrepreneurial households in rural Tansania (TA-NET), Position held: Co-Principal Investigator, Date:2022 – 2023, Funder: LEIBNIZ Hannover, Germany

Publications:

  1. Kissoly, L. (2023). Households’ participation in agri-food based livelihoods: Insights from urban and peri-urban contexts of Tanzania. Cogent Economics & Finance, 11(1), 2196859.
  2. Abebe, F., Zuo, A., Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Chilundo, M., Kissoly, L., & Dube, T. (2022). The influences on farmers' planned and actual farm adaptation decisions: Evidence from small-scale irrigation schemes in South-Eastern Africa. Ecological Economics, 202, 107594.
  3. Wegerif, M. C., & Kissoly, L. (2022). Perspective from an African City: Food Market Governance in Dar es Salaam. In Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance (pp. 278-292). Routledge.

Links for research/publications: Google Scholar/Luitfred Kissoly , Researchgate/Luitfred Kissoly

 

Contact:

Email: kissoly.donacian@aru.ac.tz, kissolyluit@gmail.com

Mobile: 0767493093