Amare Molla Dinku
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Amare has started his ARES funded mobility PhD program at UCLouvain since 2022. His doctoral research focuses on food smart cities: the role of urban agriculture in urban food systems. He earned his BA in Rural Development and MA in Development Studies (Rural Livelihood and Development) at Ambo and Addis Ababa universities of Ethiopia.
Since 2014, he has worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension at Wollo University, Ethiopia. He established the Kelem-Meda Research Group, and has organized public lecture programs, weekly seminars and collaborative MSc student supervisions. His work mainly examines food and nutrition security, urban food systems, agricultural value chains, and livelihood diversification, and he has published in indexed journals, like Journal of Agriculture and Food Security, the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Journal of Agricultural Extension, and Heliyon.
Current project
Food Smart Cities: The role of urban agriculture in north central Ethiopia
Publications
Bezuye, D. K., Dinku, M. A., Gosseries, A. (2024). Composting green Eucalyptus globulus leaves. An experiment in Ambasel Woreda, Ethiopia. agriRxiv. https://doi.org/10.31220/agriRxiv.2024.002
Dinku, A. M., Mekonnen, T. C., & Adilu, G. S. (2023). Urban food systems: Factors associated with food insecurity in the urban settings evidence from Dessie and Combolcha cities, north-central Ethiopia. Heliyon, 9(3), e14482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14482
Assefa, Z. B., Dinku, A. M., & Jemal, A. M. (2022). Value chain analysis of Mung Bean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek thrive) in Kalu Woreda, Ethiopia. Agriculture & Food Security, 11(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00393-2
Adisalem, S. T., & Dinku, A. M. (2021). Determinants of inorganic fertilizer use by smallholder farmers in South Wollo and Oromia special administrative zones, Ethiopia. Journal of Agricultural Extension, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.4314/jae.v25i4.11
Dinku, A. M., Mekonnen, T. C., & Adilu, G. S. (2020). Child dietary diversity and food (in)security as a potential correlate of child anthropometric indices in the context of urban food system in the cases of north-central Ethiopia. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 39(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-020-00219-6
Dinku, A. M. (2020). How can farmers in Ethiopia work safe and smart during COVID-19 lockdown? https://www.iied.org/how-can-farmers-ethiopia-work-safe-smart-during-covid-19-lockdown
Dinku, A. M. (2018). Determinants of livelihood diversification strategies in Borena pastoralist communities of Oromia regional state, Ethiopia. Agriculture & Food Security, 7(1), 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-018-0192-2
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