Dr. Yahia Omar Adam
ProfessorDepartment of Forest Management, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Forestry from Dresden University of Technical, Germany
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Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Forestry from Dresden University of Technical, Germany
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Dr. Yahia Omar Adam is currently working as Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, South Africa. He has completed his Ph.D. in Non-Timber Forest Products Development from Dresden University of Technical, Germany. Previously he was appointed as Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Management, University of Khartoum, and Field Research Assistant for researchers in the evaluation of land uses in central Sudan project. His area of research interest focuses on natural resource utilization and valuation in communal tenure systems, commercialization of wild resources/non-timber forest products and their role in poverty alleviation, rural livelihood systems, value chain analysis of forest products/marketing, poverty, change and ecosystem services, community-based resource management, forest economics, and social research methodology. He has also acted in an advisory role on a number of research projects and implementation initiatives and has been invited to review numerous journal articles and project proposals in his areas of expertise. Since July 2011 he has supervised 5 postgraduate students at MSc. level. He has experience in organizing large and small workshops, conferences and meetings, chairing and minute taking, proposal writing and fund-raising, budgeting, managing finances and project planning and coordinating. Dr. Yahia has published 18 research articles in journals, 6 conference papers and 11 abstracts, and 2 book and book chapters. He is also serving as member of Sudanese Environmental Protection Society, Khartoum, Sudan, Sudanese Social Forests Society, Khartoum, Sudan and African Forest Forum. He is member of editorial board in Journal of Forest Products and Industries, Agricultural Research and Reviews, Journal of Applied and Industrial Sciences, and Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies.