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Violet Kisakye

Violet Kisakye

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Violet Kisakye is an associate professor in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences with extensive experience in teaching and in the implementation of research projects that are focused on sustainable agriculture in a changing climate. She graduated in 2018 with a PhD in sustainable water resources management from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (KU Leuven). Through her research, she has extensively contributed to the area of water resources management specifically water harvesting technologies for domestic and livestock use in a changing climate. Her Masters is in Integrated Water Resources Management which she obtained from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.  Violet also holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Land Use and Management from Makerere University, Uganda. She previously worked as an agricultural extension worker in several commercial agricultural estates in Uganda and later joined the academic world at Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda in 2012. Since then, Violet has risen through the ranks to her current position as associate Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. She has widely published in reputable scientific journals, especially in the area of water resources management, environmental management, and sustainable agriculture. Her current research projects are centered around the intersectionality between agroecology food systems and irrigation as well as sustainable in-situ water harvesting technologies for smallholder farmers. She’s also coordinating several EU funded projects most notably the Intra Africa Mobility project that supports south to South knowledge exchange in climate change science.

2014 -2018 Katholieke Universiteit- KU Leuven, Belgium PhD in Engineering science (Water Resources)
2013-2014 Katholieke Universiteit- KU Leuven, Belgium Pre-doctoral scholar in water resources management
2009-2010 University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Masters in Integrated Water Resources Management
2009 (July-September) HOORC institute, University of Botswana, Maun campus, Botswana Specialized in Water and Land interactions (as part of the Msc studies)
2003-2006 Makerere University Kampala, Uganda Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Land use and Management
  1. Freyer, B., Amare, Z. Y., Bieling, C., Bingen, J., Cifuentes, M. L., Ellssel, P., Fiala, V., Kisakye, V., Sanjuan, L. D., & Wieck, C. (2024). Food Systems in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa : Critical Reflections on the Interface Between Food Systems Practice Theory. In M. A. Loconto & H. D. Constance (Eds.), Agrifood Transitions in the Antropocene. Challenges, Contested Knowledge, and the Need for Change (SSIS Serie, Issue 2008). Sage.
  2. Kisakye, V. (2023). A bucket sand filter and Moringa Oleifera drinking water treatment hybrid system for rural households. Scientific African, 20, e01689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01689
  3. Muhirirwe, C. S., Van der Bruggen, B., & Kisakye, V. (2023). Design of Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting and Development of Low-Cost Water Treatment Technologies for Dairy Cattle and Farmers. https://kuleuven.limo.libis.be/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=lirias4014027&context=SearchWebhook&vid=32KUL_KUL:Lirias&search_scope=lirias_profile&adaptor=SearchWebhook&tab=LIRIAS&query=any,contains,lirias4014027
  4. Violet Kisakye and Phillipp Dietrich. (2022). Partcipatory curriculum development of a Master of Science in Agroecology-a case study from Western Uganda. In A. J. Obrecht (Ed.), New pathways towards participative knowledge production through transnational and transcultural academic cooperation (pp. 184–188). APPEAR II.
  5. Muhirirwe, S. C., Kisakye, V., & Van der Bruggen, B. (2022). Reliability and economic assessment of Rainwater harvesting systems for dairy production. Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances, 14 (April), 200079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcradv.2022.200079
  6. Hänke, H., Wesana, J., Ahmed, J. C., Eichelter, L., Ekyaligonza, D. M., Hegeler, F., Kataike, J., Kirmes, E. S., Kisakye, V., Lauben, M., Marà, F., Mbabazi, S., & Mutambo, S. (2022). Sustainability Hot Spot Analysis 2.0. A participatory approach to assess the Nile perch & Irish potato value chains in Uganda. In SLE PUBLICATION SERIES- S287 (Issue March). SLE Postgraduate Studies on International Cooperation for Sustainable Development. https://doi.org/10.18452/24308
  7. Pierre Ellsse Bernhard Freyer, Reinhard Jank, Richard Klepsch, Deous Mary Ekyaligonza, Thaddeo Tibasiima Kahigwa, Violet Kisakye (2022)
  8. The “Myth” of Agroecology – Examples from Uganda Conference: Tropentag 2022 – International Conference on Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21357.67041
  9. Muhirirwe, Sandra Cecilia, Bruggen, Bart Van der and Kisakye, Violet, Evaluation of the Potential of a Two-Stage Multi-Layer Filter for the Removal of Contaminants from Drinking Water for Dairy Cattle in Low-Income Countries. SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL, HYBRID & NANOMATERIALS (HYMA 2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4240667
  10. Kisakye, M. Akurut and B. Van der Bruggen (2018) “Effect of climate change on reliability of rainwater harvesting systems for Kabarole district, Uganda” water 2018, 10, 71 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/w10010071  Published: 15 January 2018
  11. Kisakye and B. Van der Bruggen (2018) “Effects of Climate Change on Water Savings and Water Security from Rainwater Harvesting Systems” Resources, Conservation and Recycling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.07.009 Published online on 17 July 2018
  12. Kisakye and B. Van der Bruggen (2018) “The viability of artificial surface treatments as a mechanism for domestic rainwater harvesting” Physics and Chemistry of the Earth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.08.005 published online 27 August 2018
  13. Kisakye, M. Maatte and B. Van der Bruggen (2018) “Comparison of informal rainwater harvesting systems to conventional water sources in terms of microbiological water quality” Water Resources and Rural Development https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wrr.2018.10.002 published online on 15th October 2018

Projects under my coordination

  1. Mobility 4 Agricultural International Networks Supporting Thematic Resilience and Enhancing Adaptation and Mitigation (MAIN)STREAM funded by the European Commission through the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe (NDICI) Total funding amount EUR 1.7 million https://mainstreamafrica.org/
  2. Agro-ecology for sustainable and just groundwater governance (Careful Irrigation)’ funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands under the Water and Development Partnership Programme (WDPP) . Total funding amount: EUR 1.4 million
  3. Strengthening smallholder farmer resilience to climate change through Joint learning, development and evaluation of contextualised solutions-A case of the Rwenzori and Kigezi highland regions of Uganda (SFR2CC). Funded by funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands under the Water and Development Partnership Programme (WDPP). Total funding amount EUR 399,918
  4. Strengthening of Higher Education, Research and Science Communication in Agroecology in the Rwenzori Region in Western Uganda-Phase II funded by the Austrian Development Agency- 2022 to 2025 Grant Austrian Development Agency (Vienna, AT) GRANT_NUMBER: Project262_AAP Total funding amount Organization identifiers FUNDREF: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100014986 Austrian Development Agency: AT EUR 389,879.6 https://aerproject.org/
  5. Boosting Agricultural studies in Sub Saharan Africa (BASIS) Organization identifiers: FUNDREF: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010790 Erasmus+: Total funding amount: EUR 399,212
  6. Women River Ambassadors (WORIAS) a collaboration between Join for Water, Mountains of the Moon University and Joint Effort to save the Environment. Experimental Funding SIDA under the European Union Climate change programme. Funding total of EUR 100,000
  7. Staff and Exchange mobility between North and south Universities Organization identifiers: FUNDREF: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010790 Erasmus+: Total funding Amount: EUR 20,000
  8. Feasibility assessment of selected point of use water treatment systems applicable for rural households of the Rwenzori region, Uganda (FAST 2022 to 2024 Grant VLIRUOS (Brussels, BE) GRANT_NUMBER: UG2022SIN359A103 Organization identifiers: FUNDREF: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100022083 VLIRUOS: BE Total funding amount EUR 69,909.4
  9. Project 1: Action Research & Community Engagement for Development under the VLIR-IUC MMU partner programme 2012-2023 funded by the Flemish Inter university Council through VLIR-UOS

2 PhD supervision to completion

4 ongoing PhD supervision

Over 10 Masters supervision to completion

over 20 Bachelors students supervision

  • A member of the Waternet Association of water professionals
  • Founding member of the HEAT Associates Consultancy Group
  • Board Chairperson –RwenzoriAid http://rwenzoriaid.org/