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Dalitso Kafumbata, is a molecular geneticist with post-doctoral training in ecosystem services for managing food and nutritional health. Dalitso is the lead researcher on enhancement of growth performance in cichlids, pulses, and cereal crops using modern biotechnology at the African Center of Excellence in Resilient Agri-Food Systems (CRAFS), University of Malawi. He holds a faculty position as Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Health Sciences in the School of Natural and Applied Sciences. Besides postgraduate student supervision, Dalitso teaches courses in genetics and biotechnology. He also serves as Fisheries Research Advisor for FAO Malawi since 2018 on building climate change resilience in the Fisheries Sector in Malawi. Dalitso joined the global network of change agents as a LEAD Fellow. He is also a Pan-Africa START Climate Change Adaptation Teaching Fellow.

Publications

• Journal Article
  Assessing the potential of syn-rift sediments for geochronological dating and its implications for the development of Makanjira-Shire basin in south Malawi Rift, Zuze Dulanya, Aayush Srivastava, Tim C. Kinnaird, Blackwell Manda, Dalitso Kafumbata, Edister Jamu, Alick Bwanali, Winford Masanjala Received 13 June 2023, Revised 4 August 2023, Accepted 5 August 2023, Available online 9 August 2023, Version of Record 10 August 2023 Quaternary Science Advances Volume 12, October 2023 (2023)
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100114

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• Journal Article
  Modelling the current status of Lake Malawi fish stocks, an inland lake in East Africa O. L. Weyl; M. S. M'balaka; R. Sharma; J Cope; D. Kafumbata Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management (2023) 26 (3): 26–39. (2023)
  https://doi.org/10.14321/aehm.026.03.26

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• Journal Article
  Chimaimba, Frank and Kafumbata, Dalitso and Chanyenga, Tembo and Chiotha, Sosten, The Neglected Carbon Sink: Above-Ground Carbon Stock Estimates of Urban Forests and Their Variations by Land Use Type in Zomba City, Malawi. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3973509 (2021)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3973509

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• Journal Article
  DOI:10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126781Corpus ID: 224925245 Urban tree species composition and diversity in Zomba city, Malawi: Does land use type matter? Frank B. Chimaimba, D. Kafumbata, T. Chanyenga, S. Chiotha Published 1 October 2020 Environmental Science Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2020)
  DOI:10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126781

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