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Mitiku Haile is affiliated with Mekelle University in Ethiopia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Soil Science, Plant Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Additional subfields include Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work covers a range of topics, including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, and rangeland management and livestock ecology. Other topics of research are soil and land suitability analysis, global maternal and child health, child nutrition and water access, as well as banana cultivation and research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mitiku Haile include:

  • Girmay Gebresamuel
  • Eyob Ketema Bogale
  • Amanuel Zenebe
  • Eyob Getachew
  • Kedir Seid

Regular publication venues for their research are diverse and include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Heliyon
  • Scientific Reports
  • Sustainability
  • Geoderma

Recent published papers by Mitiku Haile include:

  • "Accumulation of organic carbon in various soil aggregate sizes under different land use systems in a semi-arid environment," 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Mineral Fertilizer Demand for Optimum Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Yield Potentials of Legumes in Northern Ethiopia," 2020, Sustainability
  • "Soil organic carbon, total nitrogen stocks and CO2 emissions in top- and subsoils with contrasting management regimes in semi-arid environments," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Assessing land use type impacts on soil quality: Application of multivariate statistical and expert opinion-followed indicator screening approaches," 2023, CATENA
  • "Assessing the sustainability of land use management of northern Ethiopian drylands by various indicators for soil health," 2020, Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands—a state of the art

    Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Jan Moeyersons;Jozef Deckers

  • Effectiveness of exclosures to restore degraded soils as a result of overgrazing in Tigray, Ethiopia

    Wolde Mekuria;E. Veldkamp;Mitiku Haile;J. Nyssen;J. Nyssen

  • Rainfall erosivity and variability in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

    Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;H Vandenreyken;Jean Poesen;J Moeyersons

  • Incidence of malaria among children living near dams in northern Ethiopia: community based incidence survey

    Tedros A Ghebreyesus;Mitiku Haile;Karen H Witten;Asefaw Getachew

  • Impact of road building on gully erosion risk: A case study from the northern Ethiopian Highlands

    Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Jan Moeyersons;Edith Luyten

  • Effectiveness of stone bunds in controlling soil erosion on cropland in the Tigray Highlands, northern Ethiopia

    D Gebremichael;Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Jozef A Deckers

  • Reservoirs in Tigray (Northern Ethiopia): characteristics and sediment deposition problems

    N Haregeweyn;N Haregeweyn;Jean Poesen;Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;J De Wit

  • Sediment deposition and pedogenesis in exclosures in the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia

    Katrien Descheemaeker;Jan Nyssen;Joni Rossi;Jean Poesen

  • Impact of soil and water conservation measures on catchment hydrological response - a case in north Ethiopia.

    Jan Nyssen;Wim Clymans;Katrien Descheemaeker;Jean Poesen

  • Runoff on slopes with restoring vegetation: A case study from the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia

    Katrien Descheemaeker;Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Dirk Raes

  • Stone bunds for soil conservation in the northern Ethiopian highlands: Impacts on soil fertility and crop yield

    Karen Vancampenhout;Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Desta Gebremichael;Jozef A. Deckers

  • Assessment of gully erosion rates through interviews and measurements: a case study from northern Ethiopia

    Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Maude Veyret-Picot;Jan Moeyersons

  • Dynamics of soil erosion rates and controlling factors in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands – towards a sediment budget

    Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Jan Moeyersons;Mitiku Haile

  • Gully head retreat rates in the semi-arid highlands of Northern Ethiopia

    Amaury Frankl;Jean Poesen;Jozef Deckers;Mitiku Haile

  • Litter production and organic matter accumulation in exclosures of the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia

    Katrien Descheemaeker;Bart Muys;Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen

  • Desertification? Northern Ethiopia re-photographed after 140 years.

    Jan Nyssen;Mitiku Haile;Jozef Naudts;Neil Munro

  • Species composition and diversity of small Afromontane forest fragments in northern Ethiopia

    Raf Aerts;Raf Aerts;Koenraad Van Overtveld;M Haile;Martin Hermy

  • Soil landscapes, land cover change and erosion features of the Central Plateau region of Tigrai, Ethiopia: Photo-monitoring with an interval of 30 years

    R. Neil Munro;J. Deckers;Mitiku Haile;A.T. Grove

  • Contour furrows for in situ soil and water conservation, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

    Tewodros Gebreegziabher;Jan Nyssen;Bram Govaerts;Bram Govaerts;Fekadu Getnet

  • Impact of tillage and nitrogen fertilization on yield, nitrogen use efficiency of tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) and soil properties

    K. Habtegebrial;B.R. Singh;M. Haile

  • Tillage erosion on slopes with soil conservation structures in the Ethiopian highlands

    Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Mitiku Haile;Jan Moeyersons

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Nyssen
Jan Nyssen Ghent University
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Amaury Frankl
Amaury Frankl Ghent University
Jan Moeyersons
Jan Moeyersons Royal Museum for Central Africa
Bram Govaerts
Bram Govaerts International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Nigussie Haregeweyn
Nigussie Haregeweyn Tottori University
Wim Cornelis
Wim Cornelis Ghent University
Hossein Azadi
Hossein Azadi Ghent University
Dirk Raes
Dirk Raes KU Leuven

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