PhD Students Candidate Progress

PhD Progress Reports

Mr. Justin Lusasi

The PhD candidate Mr Justin Lusasi has successfully presented his PhD research proposal titled Processes of Land Acquisition For Afforestation and Associated Impacts On Rural Communities: The Case Of Southern Highlands, Tanzania. The proposal has been approved at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) level and forwarded to the Directorate for Research and Postgraduate Studies for final approval before being allowed to commence his fieldwork. Lusasi is one of the two PhD candidates sponsored under the Timber Rush: Private Forest in Village Land project (2016-2021) implemented collaboratively by Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Copenhagen University (CoU) of Denmark.

 

Mr. Respikius Martin

This PhD candidate who is also the member of academic staff under the Department of Agricultural Education and Community Development here at SUA has successfully completed his study proposal (Effects of Timber Value Chain Governance on the incomes of chain actors in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania). Currently, the candidate is developing data collection instruments and expecting to embark on fieldwork during the end of September , 2017. On similar basis, however, Mr. Martin is under the sandwich program under thet Timber Rush scholarship which is undertaken between Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Both candidates (Lusasi and Martin) had an opportunity to participate to the two PhD courses at the University of Copenhagen (April-June 2017). Besides attending the courses, the two candidates had an opportunity to work on their PhD proposals which were presented respectively to the Department of Food and Resource Economics of the University of Copenhagen and at Danish Institute for International Studies. In both cases, the proposals fulfilled the minimum required standards.