Abraham Mehari Haile

Abraham Mehari Haile holds a PhD degree in Land and Water Development from the UNESCO-IHE Institute and Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He has 10 years of professional and research experience largely in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen, Tanzania, Switzerland, Spain, France, South Africa and the Netherlands. He has worked extensively at a field level, both practical and research, as well as institutional capacity building projects in various areas of expertise including strengthening the technical and institutional efficacy of irrigation and drainage systems; optimizing land, water and crop productions and productivities under drought and water scarcity with the

objectives of poverty eradication, livelihood improvement and environmental sustainability; development and management of flood-based irrigation systems (spate and flood recession farming, flood plain irrigation and inundation canals) within the perspective of river basin resource management; agronomy, soil moisture conservation, management and modelling; modernization of surface and pressurized irrigation systems. His research interest include: land-water-poverty alleviation-hunger eradication-environmental sustainability nexus; identification of optimal combinations of innovative agricultural water management options (technological, institutional, water management, environmental, financial) for higher agricultural production and productivity under drought and water scarcity; modernization and performance evaluation of surface and pressurized irrigation systems; soil-water-plant relationships and soil moisture management and modelling; integrated river basin water resources management.

Key Publications:

Abraham Mehari, Van Koppen, Barbara, McCartney, Mathew and Lankfordd, Bruce. Unchartered innovation? Local reforms of national formal water management in the Mkoji sub-catchment, Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 34:299-308, 2009

Abraham Mehari, Schultz, Bart and Herman Depeweg. Modelling soil moisture and assessing its impacts on water sharing and crop yield for the Wadi Laba spate irrigation system, Eritrea. Irrigation and Drainage 57.1, 2008.

Mehari A. 2007. A tradition in transition: water management reforms and indigenous spate irrigation systems (PhD thesis). Taylor and Francis/Balkema, ISBN 10 0-415-43947-7

Abraham Mehari, Schultz, Bart and Herman Depeweg. Salinity impact assessment on crop yield for the Wadi Laba spate irrigation system in Eritrea. Agricultural Water Management 85.1&2: 200-211, 2006.

Abraham Mehari, Schultz, Bart and Herman Depeweg. Where indigenous water management practices overcome failures of structures. Irrigation and Drainage 54.1: 1-14, 2005.

Abraham Mehari, Schultz, Bart and Herman Depeweg. Hydraulic performance evaluation of the spate irrigation systems in Eritrea. Irrigation and Drainage 54.4: 1-18, 2005.

Mehari, A., Depeweg, H., Stillhardt, B. 2003. Potentials and constraints of smallholder irrigation technology for the highlands in Eritrea. Mountain Research and Development Journal 23.1: 27-31

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