Dr. Everline Komutunga

Team leader: Ph.D, MSc, BSc in Agro-meteorology

Profile

To further develop and strengthen Climate change research in NARO into a leading hub for climate-smart technologies, information, and ICT tools, Climate change research continues to generate advanced agricultural information and climate-smart technologies as well as actively develop field-based climate smart technologies with practical applications that will benefit the farmers.

Publications

1. Exploring visual soil evaluation and examination methods on highly-weathered tropical soil
2. Characterising agrometeorological climate risks and uncertainties: Crop production in Uganda
3. New procedure in developing adjustment algorithm for harmonizing historical climate data sets
4. A multivariate analysis approach in determining potential hotspots of seasonal rainfall change over Uganda
5. Exploring visual soil evaluation and examination methods on highly-weathered tropical soil
6. Perceived climate risks and adaptation drivers in diverse coffee landscapes of Uganda
7. Banana pests and diseases spread to higher altitudes due to increasing temperature over the last 20 years
8. The Effect of Land Use on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Lake Victoria Crescent Agro-Ecological Zone, Uganda
9. Water-smart agriculture in East Africa
10. Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes over the Greater Horn of Africa Region from 1961 to 2010

Projects

1. Water-smart agriculture in East Africa