Member Profile
Membership type: full
PhD Fellowship Alumna
Maggie Munthali
Country of origin: Malawi Currently in: Malawi, Lilongwe General field of specialization: Agricultural SciencesPhD Fellowship Alumna
- Academic Background
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Degrees
2020 Doctorate Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences2013 Master Agricultural Sciences2008 Undergraduate Agricultural Sciences - Research and Profession
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Current Research Activities
Agricultural Sciences
My work involves planning, managing, monitoring, evaluating and implementing all forestry activities, projects and programmes in the Central Region of MalawiCurrent profession
Current professional activities type:OtherMy work involves planning, managing, monitoring, evaluating and implementing all forestry activities, projects and programmes in the Central Region of Malawi
Workshop and Conference Attended
2015 University of Missouri Geospatial and Remote Sensing Training2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana State, United States Society of American Foresters Convention2015 Des Moines, Iowa State, U.S World Food Prize2015 Durban, South Africa XIV World Forestry Congress 20152015 Durban, South Africa IUFRO-SPDC Pre-World Forestry Congress Training on Science-Policy Interactions "Making Science Work for Forest and Landscape RestorationAffiliations
USDA/Foreign Agricultural ServicePresentation given
University of MissouriEvent: NORMAN BORLAUG FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FINAL PRESENTATION - Prizes, Grants and Awards
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TWAS Awards
Mar 2025Other Awards
Jul 2015Borlaug Fellowship ProgramThe Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program promotes food security and economic growth by providing training and collaborative research opportunities to fellows from developing and middle-income countries. Borlaug fellows are generally scientists, researchers or policymakers who are in the early or middle stages of their careers. Each fellow works one-on-one with a mentor at a U.S. university, research center or government agency, usually for 6-12 weeks.Dec 2012African Women in Agricultural Research and DevelopmentAWARD is a career-development program that equips top women agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their research and leadership skills, through tailored fellowships. AWARD is a catalyst for innovations with high potential to contribute to the prosperity and well-being of African smallholder farmers, most of whom are women. AWARD Fellows benefit from a two-year career-development program focused on fostering mentoring partnerships, building science skills, and developing leadership capacity. Following a highly competitive process, the fellowships are awarded on the basis of intellectual merit, leadership capacity, and the potential of the scientist's research to improve the daily lives of smallholder farmers, especially women. - Fellowship with OWSD
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Fellowship with OWSD
Fellowship with OWSD
Fellowship awarded 2014
PHD Graduation 2020
Changes in the condition and composition of the land cover can have significant impacts on climate. These changes alter the sustainability of different biophysical resources including soil, vegetation, water and agricultural resources. Recent developments in Satellite Remote Sensing offer a number of potential benefits for the improved analysis of fine scale land use and land cover change particularly for critical hydrological, forest and agricultural processes. This project proposes to use Land Change Modeller (LCM) and Markov-Cellular Automaton (M-CA) and recoSatellite imagery to model historic land use changes in the Dedza district of Malawi. These data will then be integrated into a model to predict land use change in the study area over the next thirty years with the aim of building resilience against climate change.ThesisMODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON HYDROLOGICAL, FORESTS AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES IN DEDZA DISTRICT, MALAWI
Publications resulting from Fellowship
