Risks and opportunities from more productive and resilient cropping system strategies in the Central and Southern Rift Valley of Ethiopia

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Publications included in this thesis No publications vi Contributions by others to the thesis John Dimes provided technical and APSIM modelling training and support during first fieldwork planning and proposal writing. He provided also technical support in soil and other minimum data requirements collection for APSIM model calibration experiment at Melkassa Research Centre in Ethiopia. Furthermore, he provided technical backstopping in running participatory modelling workshops and surveys with farmers which were the key research activity for chapter three in this thesis. Peter deVoil has provided technical support in APSIM modelling and analysis; R graphics and data analysis reflected throughout this thesis. Israel Bekele provided technical support in soil sampling, preparation, analysis, and