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I have a knowledge and experience in sustainable agri-food systems monitoring and optimization using farming systems models, earth observation data, climate data and systems analysis. I am working on developing, improving and applying process-based, suitability and statistical models for advancing their utilization in production system profiling and risk assessments for climate-smart agriculture.

The hope is that my research output can contribute in (re)designing farming systems to be productive, profitable and able to handle the trade-offs between the multiple functions of agriculture at the field, farm, landscape, regional and global scales under current and future climatic conditions.

Expertise

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Coffee
- Coffea Arabica
- Crops
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Climate Change
- Datum
- Leaf
- Zimbabwe
- Model

Organisations

Publications

2024

Remote sensing vegetation landscape controls of water availability over changing timescales in tropical catchments (2024)In Proceedings of the 25th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. Chemura, A., Parker, A., Shekede, M. D. & Banda, K.Assessing basin scale irrigation potential in the Kafue catchment under global warming levels (2024)In Proceedings of the 25th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. Chemura, A., Gleixner, S., Laudien, R. & Sylla, M. B.Quantifying residual soil moisture through empirical orthogonal functions analysis to support legume-based cropping systems (2024)Earth Systems and Environment (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Jimma, T. B., Abera, W., Demissie, T., Spillane, C., Ture, K., Solomon, D. & Chemura, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00514-wClimate change impacts on yield and grain quality: Implications for health and nutrition (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2024. Abigaba, D., Chemura, A., Schauberger, B. & Gornott, C.A double jeopardy: Climate change affects both yield and grain quality of cereals in Ethiopia (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2024. Chemura, A., Mkuhlani, S., Abigaba, D. & Nelson, A. D.A double jeopardy: Climate change affects both yield and grain quality of cereals in Ethiopia (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2024. Chemura, A., Mkuhlani, S., Abigaba, D. & Nelson, A. D.From hectares to households: Farmer centric crop-modelling to assess differential climate change impacts and adaptation response (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2024. Chemura, A., Romanovska, P., Shukla, R., Murken, L. & Gornott, C.Climate variability and agriculture (2024)In Remote Sensing of Climate (pp. 51-83). Elsevier. Shekede, M. D., Gwitira, I. & Chemura, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-21731-9.00010-7The potential of agroforestry to buffer climate change impacts on suitability of coffee and banana in Uganda (2024)Agroforestry systems, 98(6), 1555-1577. Abigaba, D., Chemura, A., Gornott, C. & Schauberger , B.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-024-01025-3The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: Lessons learned from the AGRICA project (2024)Environmental research letters, 19(6). Article 062001. Murken, L., Tomalka, J., Abigaba, D., Amoah, A.-B., Amougou, J. a., Anaba, M., Arumugam, P., Awori, E., Baek, H.-R. l., Below, T., Cartsburg, M., Chemura, A., Cronauer, C., Didovets, I., Worku, A., Gleixner, S., Gloy, N., Grams, E., Habtemariam, L., … Gornott, C.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad50eb

Other contributions

Chemura, A., Arumugum, P., Awori, E. K., & Gornott, C. (2023). Elucidating climate change adaptation potential of improved maize (Zea mays L.) varieties with crop modelling (No. EGU23-15686). Copernicus Meetings.
Gloy, N., Romanovska, P., Chemura, A., & Gornott, C. (2023). Future climatic suitability of cocoa agroforestry systems with common fruit trees in Cameroon (No. EGU23-3139). Copernicus Meetings.
Chemura, A., & Gornott, C. (2022). Potential redistribution of major staple crops buffer climate change impacts on agriculture in Africa EGU 2022 (No. EGU22-8866). Copernicus Meetings.
Chemura, A., Murken, L., Nele, G, Paula Aschenbrenner, P., von Loeben, S, Gornott, C (2022) Crop diversification under climate change: A comparative assessment in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Niger, Tropentag 2022, September 14-16, 2022, Prague.
Chemura A. & GornottC (2021) Scaling agroforestry systems for maize yield stabilization under climate change: Indications from Ethiopia, Adaptation Futures Conference (Virtual), 5-8 October 2021.
Chemura, A., & Gornott, C. (2022). Climate change and suitability of multiple food crops in Africa: A spatial modelling assessment, LANDSCAPE21 Conference, 20-22 September, Berlin
Chemura, A. Yalew, A. W, Gornott, C. and Arumagum, P. (2019) Using yield projections from crop models to inform adaptation investments in Africa: An application to maize crop in Ghana, 3rd International Agriculture & Climate Change Conference, Novotel Hotel, Budapest, 25-27 March 2019.
Chemura, A and Yalew, A. W & Gornott, C (2019) Modelling changes in cocoa and coffee commodity miles and transportation infrastructure coverage under climate change in producer countries, 13th Conference of the Socio-Economic Metabolism Section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE-SEM), Harnack Haus Berlin, 13-15th May, 2019.

Research profiles

I believe in capacity building and teaching as important aspects to build the next generation of researchers and practitioners applying the scientific method to solve current and yet-to-be-realised problems in agriculture and food security at various scales.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2024/2025

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