Team & Contact

	PhD Student Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 24
Education	Katharine Tröger specialised in Organic Agricultural Sciences for her undergraduate studies at the University of Kassel, where she was awarded the Gustav-Hacker and the VDI Award (2007). She then received her MSc in Food and Resource Economics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland and was awarded the Willi Studer Prize for her MSc (2011). In 2011 she completed a one-year postgraduate training for International Development Cooperation at the Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung (SLE) of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Career	Katharine Tröger has completed several agricultural internships and worked as a student research assistant during her university studies. The SLE training included a commissioned study by KfW Entwicklungsbank to develop an impact-oriented framework and manual for Monitoring and Evaluation of a rural electrification project in the West Nile, Uganda. Prior to joining the RELOAD project as a PhD student, she worked as a Project Manager in Rwanda for two years on a project, funded through the International Climate Initiative of BMUB and administered through the University of Koblenz-Landau, that established 6500 ha of agroforestry systems.
Researchs	Focusing on pineapple value chains in Uganda, her PhD research uses participatory methods and a system learning approach to address post-harvest losses and encourage local innovation. The topic of post-harvest losses builds on her research experience during her undergraduate studies which assessed losses in onions and tomatoes in Niger. Systems thinking influenced her MSc thesis titled, “Farmers Preferences for Brands and Varietal Attributes and the Adoption of Hybrid Maize Varieties in Malawi”.
Experience Abroad	Kenya, Niger, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda.

	Associate Research Fellow Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Publication and consultancy List
Training	Saverio Krätli studied Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy and Anthropology of Development at the University of Sussex, UK (MA). He holds a doctoral degree (2007) from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), with a research on cattle breeding and generation and management of domestic animal diversity amongst pastoral Wodaabe in Niger (Cows Who Choose Domestication), supervised by Jeremy Swift and Melissa Leach, and examined by Ian Scoones and Brigitte Thébaud. Saverio specialises in the interface between producers, science and policy, with a focus on pastoral production strategies.
Career	From 1999 to 2001, Saverio Krätli was a research assistant at the Institute of Development Studies, working with Jeremy Swift on pastoral development issues. After completing his PhD, Saverio has worked as an international consultant focussing on pastoralism, engaging with the whole spectrum of pastoral development agencies, from grassroots pastoral associations and local NGOs, to governmental, international and Bretton Wood organisations, and research institutes. Since 2009, Saverio has been honorary editor-in-chief of Nomadic Peoples, the historical peer-reviewed journal of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
Experience abroad	Long term: Niger (Azawagh), Kenya (Turkana and Marsabit), Uganda (Karamoja and Rwenzururu), Ethiopia (Oromia, Ogaden, South Omo Valley and Omorate), and Sudan (West Darfur, and North Kordofan). Short term: Chad, Tanzania, Mongolia.
Research	Saverio Krätli is committed to a trans-disciplinary perspective. He has engaged with issues of conflict, education, tacit knowledge embedded in production strategies, livelihood analysis, pastoral policy analysis, pastoral mobility and production, pastoralism total economic evaluation,. Current research interests focus on the use of environmental variability by dryland production systems, and the gap between drylands/pastoral development theory and methodologies.

	Co-Supervised Student (ReLOAD Project) University of Nairobi, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: 00254 727 429 105 Skype: bulle hallo dabasso
Training	Dabasso holds a Bsc in Natural Resource Management from Egerton University, Kenya, and a Msc in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Agriculture from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. In addition, he did short-term trainings relevant to environmental research and management including Agricultural Product Value Chain (APVC) analysis, gender mainstreaming, Geographical Information System (GIS), applied statistics and proposal writing skills.
Career	Dabasso works for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) as senior research officer in the range management section. For more than six years, he has been implementing environmental research in dry land of northern Kenya. His research activities have contributed to scientific knowledge and were published in peer-reviewed journals.
Research	Dabasso's research interest includes participatory rangeland management, pastoralism adaptation and resilience to changing climate and improvement of food security and incomes in pastoral societies through efficient and sustainable livestock production and marketing.
Current Research Projects	Dabasso is currently undertaking PhD research on Assessing requirements, relevance and importance of stratified systems of pastoral production and marketing of cattle in Kenya, within the collaborative research project on “Reducing Losses and Adding Value in East African Food Value Chains (ReLOAD)” funded by Global Food Security Programme (GlobE) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). His research aims at generating information relevant for improving quality, prices and market access of cattle breeders in pastoral areas of Kenya through stratified systems of production and marketing.

	MSc Student Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +43 (0) 6642162424
Education	Katharina Bitzan completed her BA in geography at the University of Cambridge in 2013, focusing both on aspects of physical and human geography. She is pursuing an MSc in socio-ecological economics and policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and completed a semester abroad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined DITSL in order to conduct her MSc thesis in the frame of the RELOAD project.
Career	Katharina has completed internships in Kenya and Austria. Alongside her studies, she was engaged in student organizations focused on environmental concerns including deforestation, recycling and carbon management.
Research	Her main research interests are the interactions and interrelationships within socio-ecological systems and global food systems. Her MSc research was undertaken as part of on-going transdisciplinary/action research with PhD student Katharine Tröger. Katharina specifically conducted an actor analysis with a focus on gender, to characterize the social landscape in which people contributing to small-scale pineapple supply chains in Uganda create their livelihoods.
Experience Abroad	Kenya and Uganda

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(Post)-colonial livestock breeding in Namibia

SAGRIS
2020-2023 Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

2018–2020 BLE / BMEL

RELOAD
2013–2018 BMBF GlobE

Trans-SEC
2013–2018 BMBF GlobE

International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)

2009–2019 BMZ / DAAD

Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism

2011–2015 BMZ / giz-BEAF GrassNet spin-off