Dr. A. (Alemayehu) Wassie Eshete

• BSc Forestry, Alemaya University of Agriculture, Ethiopia (1992)
• Head of District Office of Agriculture, Minstry of Agriculture, Ethiopia (1993-1996)
• Forest Development Project Head, FHI-Ethiopia (Food for The Hungry International) (1996-1999)
• Environmental Rehabilitation Project Coordinator, ORDA (Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara), Ethiopia (1999-2001)
• MSc Farm Forestry, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Sweden (2002)
• Senior forestry expert, ORDA (Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara), Ethiopia  (2002-2004)
• PhD student, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University (2004-2007)

Professional fields of interest
Forest Ecology; Agroforestry; Biodiversity; Natural Resource Conservation and Restoration

• Ethiopian church forests:opportunities and challenges for restoration

Key publications 

• Wassie Eshete, Alemayehu; Sterck, F.J.; Bongers, F. (2010)
  Species and structural diversity of church forests in a fragmented Ethiopian Highland landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science 21 (5). - p. 938 - 948.
• Wassie Eshete, A.; Bekele, T.; Sterck, F.J.; Teketay, D.; Bongers, F. (2009) Postdispersal seed predation and seed viability in forest soils: implications for the regeneration of tree species in Ethiopian church forests. African Journal of Ecology 48 (2). - p. 461 - 471
• Wassie Eshete, Alemayehu; Sterck, F.J.; Teketay, D.; Bongers, F. (2009)
  Tree Regeneration in Church Forests of Ethiopia: Effects of Microsites and Management. Biotropica 41 (1). - p. 110 - 119
• Wassie Eshete, Alemayehu; Sterck, F.J.; Teketay, D.; Bongers, F. (2009) Effects of livestock exclusion on tree regeneration in church forests of Ethiopia. Forest Ecology and Management 257 (3). - p. 765 - 772.
• Alemayu Wassie Eshete (2007). Ethiopian church forests: opportunities and challenges for restoration. PhD thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. ISBN: 978-90-8504-768-; 204 pp.
• Wassie, A.; Teketay, D. (2006). Soil seed banks in church forests of northern Ethiopia: Implications for the conservation of woody plants. Flora 201: 32–43
• Wassie, A.; Teketay, D.; Powell, N. (2005). Church forests in North Gonder Administrative Zone, northern Ethiopia. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 15:4 pp. 349-374.
• Wassie, A.; Teketay, D.; Powell, N. (2005). Church forests provide clues to restoring ecosystems in the degraded highlands of Northern Ethiopia. Journal of Ecological Restoration. 23: 2
• Wassie, A.; Teketay, D.; Powell, N. (2004). Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Forests: Their role in Restoring Forest Ecosystem in the degraded highlands of Northern Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 16 th annual Society for Ecological Restoration, Victoria, B.C.,Canada, 24-26 August 2004.
• Wassie, A.; Teketay, D.; Powell, N. (2003). Opportunities, Constraints and Prospects of the Ethiopian OrthodoxTewahido Churches in Conserving Forest Resources: The Case of Churches in South Gonder, Northern Ethiopia. Proceedings of the Symposium in Urban Landscape Dynamics and Resource Use, 28-31 August 2003 hosted by The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History and the Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.