Hussein Tadicha

Title: Director

Training

Hussein completed his BSc (Botany and Zoology) at the (Kenya) in 2002 and obtained his MSc in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Agriculture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway) in 2006. He conducted his Ph.D. research at DITSL. Hussein holds Bachelor of Science degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Masters in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Agriculture from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway and Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Kassel, Germany

Career

Hussein has over 13 years of experience in development and research work among the pastoral communities of Northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. He has worked for CARE International in Kenya for over 4 years in Northern Kenya. During his time with CARE, Hussein worked in various projects. He worked as project officer for Institutional capacity building project (2007-2008) and in 2009 coordinated a project with multiple components such as livelihood activities, water and sanitation and education among refugee-hosting communities in North Eastern Kenya. In 2010 he worked as a program officer in a Global fund funded project in Nairobi and later in 2011 joined the Adaptation Learning Program as a disaster risk reduction officer. After completing his doctoral studies worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in its Natural Resource Management sector in Kenya as National Environment and NRM Officer. During this time, he mainly worked on Land governance and natural resource management. Hussein current heads the Center for Research and Development in Drylands as the Executive Director. He is charged with providing strategic leadership in administrative and programmatic development of the center while working in close collaboration with the organization’s board of management.

Research Interests

His main research interest is on areas of pastoral land-use systems, communal grazing resource management, resource use conflicts, communal land governance, local knowledge, and climate change adaptation