In this role I analyze agro-environmental and socio-economic impacts of forage technologies using models, I develop and improve household surveys and models, we develop these internally and collaborate in interdisciplinary research with partners both locally and internationally.

Current research includes:

• Climate Change Adaptation Through Planted Forages in the Southern Highlands, Tanzania , is done in collaboration with at CSIRO in Australia, where we use the Crop Livestock Enterprise Model (CLEM) to run future climate scenarios to quantify trade-offs of different animal feeding scenarios
• Environmental assessments of livestock systems using CLEANED in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Uganda
• Training: CLEANED Virtual training

Assessed if participating smallholder farms were viable for bamboo farming through structured trainings and follow-ups.Managed the outreach team of five people, together we successfully coordinating the planting of over 10,000 bamboo seedlings with the company.