Stellah Mikalitsa Mukhovi

Prof.  Stellah Mukhovi  Mikalitsa is an Associate Professor and current Chairperson of the Department of Geography, Population and Environmental Studies.  She is a human geographer specializing in agricultural geography.  She has over 20 years’ experience in research, training and consultancy in gender and food security, food systems social-ecological resilience, food systems sustainability, climate change and agriculture, sustainable land management,  rural-urban linkages, rural livelihoods, and agricultural policy analysis. Her geography training gives her a deeper appreciation of both the environmental, socio-cultural, and economic contexts that affect food and agriculture. She has experience working on multidisciplinary research projects and societal actors to create impacts in science, policy, and practice. In addition, she has worked with smallholder farmers and pastoralists on transformative projects to improve food security and livelihoods.  She has benefited from funding from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development to conduct post-doctoral research on food systems resilience, local food system sustainable transformations and research knowledge utilization for r4d funded research projects in the global south. In addition, she has great interest in research is Arid and Semi-arid environments (ASALs) linking research to sustainability transformation at community and policy levels.