Assefa Eshete
The late Assefa Eshete, Ethiopian, had a primary role as a photo-interpreter and ecologist with the aerial survey team at ILCA until 1991. Here he contributed results from aerial surveys conducted during the mid-1980s. He also had a leading role in the production of a comprehensive ecological map of the study area.
Marco Bassi
An Italian national, Dr Bassi is a social anthropologist who was affiliated with the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University and the Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, while conducting his doctoral research in the southern rangelands during 1989-90. Here he contributed observations on social aspects of resource allocation among the Boran.
Belete Dessalegn
Belete Dessalegn, Ethiopian, served as an animal scientist with ILCA until 1989. His work in the southern rangelands focussed on productivity and feeding ecology of small ruminants and camels.
Jean Claude Billé
Dr Billé French, was a senior ecologist at ILCA until 1986. Dr Billé contributed material on grazing-induced vegetation dynamics, patterns of environmental degradation, and pastoral land use in the southern rangelands. He now resides in France.
D. Layne Coppock
Dr Coppock, American, was a range and animal scientist at ILCA until 1991, and served as research coordinator for the southern rangelands site from 1987-91. Author of the final project synthesis, Dr Coppock's primary research focus was on testing development-intervention concepts and deriving an interdisciplinary systems perspective for the southern rangelands. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Range Science at Utah State University.
Michel Corra
Dr Michel, Ethiopian, was an ecologist and member of the aerial survey team at ILCA until 1991. He contributed material on aerial survey results and plant community ecology.
Noel J. Cossins
An Australian national, Mr Cossins was Team Leader for the Ethiopian Rangelands Programme at ILCA from 1981-86. He assembled the original research team, focussed work in the southern rangelands, and helped forge initial links between ILCA and CARE-Ethiopia. He contributed material on baseline descriptions of the pastoral system and production intervention concepts. He resides in Australia.
Tim J. Donaldson
Mr Donaldson, British, received his master's degree at Reading University in 1986 with research requirements fulfilled from his study of effects of the 1983-84 drought on Borana households and their livestock. He also conducted work in which he described water resources. He has recently been employed with the Natural Resources Institute in the United Kingdom.
Geoffrey W. Dyce
Mr Dyce based his 1987 master's thesis on livestock marketing data collected by ILCA and the Third Livestock Development Project (TLDP) in the southern rangelands during the early 1980s, and produced a synthesis of supply-side features. An Australian national, he received his degree from Reading University.
Ephraim Bekele
As a member of the Dairy Technology Unit at ILCA, Ephraim Bekele, Ethiopian, provided some of the first comprehensive descriptions of Borana milk processing practices during 1987. He has also been a senior staff member affiliated with the ILCA administration in Addis Ababa.
Claudia Fütterknecht
An Austrian national, Dr Fütterknecht has been coordinator of the Borana Rangelands Project for CARE-Ethiopia from 1989-93. A social anthropologist, she contributed observations on famine relief and implementation of development interventions in the southern rangelands.
Girma Bisrat
Girma Bisrat, Ethiopian, is a range professional and former General Manager of TLDP. He contributed observations concerning range development in Ethiopia. He is currently coordinator of the Peasant Agricultural Development Project (PADEP) and is based in Addis Ababa.
Ron Hacker
A consultant range ecologist to the Third and Fourth Livestock Development Projects (TLDP/FLDP), Dr Hacker, Australian, made many useful observations on range ecology and bush encroachment. He has also been involved in the development of ecological monitoring approaches in the southern rangelands during 1988-90.
Jean Hanson
As Head of the Gene Bank at ILCA, Dr Hanson supervised much of the laboratory work on germination studies for seeds of indigenous trees. A British national, Dr Hanson has been with ILCA in Addis Ababa since 1986.
Richard Hogg
Dr Hogg, British, has been a consultant social anthropologist to TLDP/FLDP and the Southeast Rangelands Development Project (SERP). He has primarily focussed on organising more effective participatory development strategies for pastoralists.
Roger J. Hodgson
Mr Hodgson, British, served as coordinator of the Borana Rangelands Project for CARE-Ethiopia from 1985-89. He was responsible for initiation of participatory approaches that accelerated identification of development problems and possible solutions in the pastoral system. An agroforester, his technical interests focussed on forage improvements. He has recently worked with Action-Aid in Nepal.
Sarah J. Holden
A British national, Ms Holden obtained a master's degree from Reading University with the research requirement fulfilled from her study of dairy marketing among Borana women in 1987. She has recently worked as an economist with the Overseas Development Administration in Indonesia.
Ephraim Kabaija
A Ugandan national, Dr Kabaija conducted studies on mineral nutrition of Boran cattle while a postdoctoral associate with the Nutrition Unit at ILCA during 1987-88.
C. S. Kamara
From Sierra Leone, Dr Kamara carried out the first detailed soil analyses in the southern rangelands during 1987, when he was a research associate with the Plant Sciences Division at ILCA.
Gordon King
Dr King has had a key role in supervising several Ethiopian postgraduate students in the southern rangelands. Research topics for these students varied from range ecology to forage agronomy. An Australian national, Dr King is on the faculty of the Department of Wool and Animal Science at the University of New South Wales.
Menwyelet Atsedu
A former staff member of TLDP, Menwyelet Atsedu, Ethiopian, obtained his master's degree from Colorado State University and fulfilled the research requirement with his studies of the ecology and management of indigenous forage resources by the Boran during 1988-90. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree at Colorado State.
Wangoi Migongo-Bake
Dr Migongo-Bake, Kenyan, was a postdoctoral associate at ILCA during 1985-86. Her research focus was forage agronomy.
Kevin Milligan
The late Mr Milligan conducted the first comprehensive analysis of an aerial survey of the southern rangelands for ILCA in 1982.
Mulugeta Assefa
A former staff member of TLDP, Mulugeta Assefa, Ethiopian, obtained his master's degree from Colorado State University with the research requirement fulfilled from his studies of effects of family wealth on the productivity and management of Boran cattle, and implications for production interventions as assessed through cost/benefit modeling of herd performance. This work was conducted during 1988-90. He now resides in the United States.
Negussie Tilahun
While a field research assistant at ILCA, Negussie Tilahun, Ethiopian, conducted some of the first economic surveys of Borana households and livestock markets in the study area during the early 1980s.
Mark J. Nicholson
A British national, Dr Nicholson primarily focussed on studies of water restriction of Boran cattle and the implications for production at Abernosa ranch in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. He also investigated calf growth and milk offtake patterns in the southern rangelands. His principal assignment at ILCA from 1984-87 was as a doctoral candidate affiliated with Cambridge University, UK, with the water-restriction work comprising the research requirements for his degree.
Charles B. O'Connor
An Irish national, Dr O'Connor has supervised the laboratory work dealing with technical aspects of milk processing as practiced by the Boran. He is currently Head of the Dairy Technology Unit of ILCA at Debre Zeit station in Ethiopia.
Frank O'Mahony
The late Dr O'Mahony, an Irish national, was a dairy technologist at ILCA who initiated field studies of milk processing in Borana households in 1986.
Jess D. Reed
Dr Reed, American, contributed to work on nutritional evaluation of indigenous forages in the southern rangelands conducted while he was a scientist in the Nutrition Unit at ILCA in Addis Ababa from 1984-89. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Animal Science at the University of Wisconsin.
Solomon Dessalegn
Solomon Dessalegn, Ethiopian, has worked towards his master's degree at the University of New South Wales. His research has focussed on the use of fire, mechanical or chemical control techniques in the management of woody vegetation in the southern rangelands.
Solomon Desta
As senior economist with TLDP, Solomon Desta, Ethiopian, has been instrumental in TLDP management. For this report he contributed results from a livestock census conducted in 1987 in the southern rangelands that he designed and supervised, as well as results from other unpublished government surveys from the 1980s. He also shares many of his important insights regarding livestock development in Ethiopia. He has recently been project manager for the Southeast Rangelands Project (SERP) in the Ogaden.
Solomon Kebede
A former staff member of the Ethiopian Ministry of Land Use Planning, Solomon Kebede, Ethiopian, conducted research towards his master's degree at the University of New South Wales. He studied aspects of ecological competition between herbaceous and woody vegetation on a government ranch in southern Ethiopia during 1987.
Sandro Sovani
An Italian national, Dr Sovani contributed to an analysis of the effects of nutritional interventions on affecting time to puberty in Boran heifers. This work was conducted while he was a research associate with the Animal Reproduction and Health Section at ILCA in Addis Ababa during 1988-90.
Tamene Yigezu
Tamene Yigezu, Ethiopian, obtained his master's degree at the University of New South Wales in 1990 and fulfilled the research requirement with a study of the population ecology of two Acacia species in the southern rangelands. He has recently served as sub-project manager for the Southern Rangelands Development Unit (SORDU) in Yabelo.
Tarik Kassaye
Tarik Kassaye, Ethiopian, obtained her master's degree in food science at McGill University in 1990 and fulfilled the research requirement with a technical study of traditional milk processing as practised by the Boran, conducted in 1988-90. During this time she was a research assistant with the Dairy Technology Unit at ILCA.
John C. Tothill
The former head of the Plant Science Division at ILCA during 1985-1990, Dr Tothill, Australian, helped supervise Ethiopian postgraduates in range ecology and forage agronomy in the southern rangelands. He now resides in Australia.
Martin Upton
Professor Martin Upton, a British national on the faculty of Reading University, served as a consultant to ILCA at various times during the mid-1980s. He contributed work concerning evaluation of production interventions using modeling approaches as well as exploring issues in resource management and development policy in southern Ethiopia.
Patrick Webb
A British national and research staff member of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D C, Dr. Webb was the field director of a study of household responses to the 1983-84 drought in agricultural systems throughout Ethiopia. The study was conducted during 1988-90 and included a site in the southern rangelands. A geographer by training, he currently works with IFPRI and is based in the United States.
Richard Wilding
Dr Wilding served as a consultant to ILCA at various times during the mid-1980s. His work focussed on uses of indigenous plants by Borana households and historical aspects of the Boran in southern Ethiopia. At the time of his collaboration with ILCA, Dr Wilding was a staff historian with the National Museum system of Kenya.
Andrea Woodward
An American national, Dr Woodward obtained her doctorate at Cornell University in 1988 with research requirements fulfilled from a study that focussed, in part, on use of browse forages by small ruminants and camels in the southern rangelands. She has recently worked as a biologist with the College of Forestry at the University of Washington.
Yohannes Alemseged
A former staff member of the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, Yohannes Alemseged, Ethiopian, obtained his master's degree from the University of New South Wales in 1989 with the research requirement fulfilled from his study of various forage legumes as intercrops with maize conducted in the southern rangelands during 1987. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in Australia.
