Temesgen Tadesse Deressa

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Location: Silver Spring MAryland
Work: climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability research
Biographical: TEMESGEN TADESSE DERESSA ACCFP Doctoral Research Fellow Environment and Production Technology Division International Food Policy Research Institute Email: ttderessa@yahoo.com EDUCATION Jan.2007 – Dec. 2009 PhD student, Environmental Economics Center for Environmental Economics and Policy for Africa (CEEPA), Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, South Africa Dissertation: Assessment of the Vulnerability of Ethiopian Agriculture to Climate Change and Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE March, 2009 – Present Doctoral Research Fellow under the African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP). Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, USA OTHER SKILLS Languages Oromo: native speaker Amharic: fluent English: fluent Computing, Technical Programming: GAMS Statistical: STATA, SAS, SPSS, SHAZAM GIS: ArcView (basic) General: MS office Field methods: Carried out several farm household surveys Presentations: Presented many ongoing and completed research outputs in different conferences and workshops AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS ARTP Scholarship for MSc Program BMZ Scholarship for PhD program ACCFP fellowship for doctoral program
Favourite Publications: Journal of African Economies Global Environmental Change Climatic change Disasters World Bank Economic Review Journal of Agricultural Science

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20/06/10 02:10:53PM @chief-admin:
Dear Temesgen,I have created a communication-focused group for "Food, Agriculture and People" inside the Research Cooperative. If you would like to look (and perhaps join), please see here:
"> Best wishes for your PhD work.Thanks, Peter (Admin. Research Cooperative)

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