Felicia O.
Akinyemi
Senior Researcher (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
University of Bern, Switzerland
Felicia O. Akinyemi is a Senior researcher (Marie Curie Research Fellow) at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern. Prior, she was an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in the Faculty of Science, Botswana International University of Science and Technology. Working at the intersection of geoinformatics, global change and sustainability, her research seeks to understand the impacts of multidecadal land system change, incl. land degradation and climate change on ecosystems at multi-scales. Current research examines how agricultural land use change affects the resilience of smallholder farming systems. Recent contributions include: · Akinyemi FO and Ifejika Speranza C. 2022. Agricultural landscape change impact on the quality of land: An African continent-wide assessment in gained and displaced agricultural lands. International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation 106:102644. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2021.102644 · Akinyemi FO, Ghazaryan G, Dubovyk O. 2021. Assessing UN indicators of Land Degradation Neutrality and proportion of degraded land over Botswana using Remote Sensing based national level metrics. Land Degradation and Development. 32(1), 158-172. doi:10.1002/ldr.3695 · Akinyemi FO 2021. Vegetation trends, drought severity and land use-land cover change during the growing season in semi-arid contexts. Remote Sensing 13:836 doi:10.3390/rs13050836 · Akinyemi FO, Tlhalerwa LT, Eze PN 2021. Land degradation assessment in an African dryland context based on the Composite Land Degradation Index and Mapping method. Geocarto International 36(16): 1838-1854. Taylor and Francis doi: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1678673 · Akinyemi FO, Ikanyeng M, Muro J. 2020. Land cover change effects on land surface temperature trends in an African urbanizing dryland region. City and Environment Interactions. doi:10.1016/j.cacint.2020.100029 · Mhete M, Eze PN, Rahube TO, Akinyemi FO (2020). Soil properties influence bacterial abundance and diversity under different land-use regimes in semi-arid environments. Scientific African 7, e00246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2019.e00246 · Akinyemi FO, Kgomo MO 2019. Vegetation dynamics in African drylands: An assessment based on the Vegetation Degradation Index in an agro-pastoral region of Botswana. Regional Environmental Change 19(7), 2027-2039. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01541-4 · Akinyemi FO, Abiodun BJ 2019. Potential impacts of global warming levels 1.5oC and above on climate extremes in Botswana. Climatic Change 154, 387–400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02446-1 · Akinyemi FO, Mashame G 2018. Analysis of land change in the dryland agricultural landscapes of eastern Botswana. Land Use Policy 76:798-811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.010 · Akinyemi FO 2017. Land change in the central Albertine Rift: Insight from analysis and mapping of land use-cover change in north-western Rwanda. Applied Geography 87:127-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.07.016 ·Akinyemi FO, Pontius, Jr RG, Braimoh AK 2017. Land change dynamics: Insights from Intensity Analysis applied to an African emerging city. Journal of Spatial Science, 62(1):69-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2016.1196624 · Akinyemi FO 2017. Climate change and variability in semi-arid Palapye, Eastern Botswana: An assessment from smallholder farmers’ perspective. Weather, Climate and Society, 9(3): 349–365. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-16-0040.1