Personal information

Birara Endalew Admas

Address

Bahir Dar University, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, P.O.BOX 5501, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

ORCID

0000-0003-1624-992X

Website

www.bdu.edu.et/caes

Mobile

+251943378404

Email

birara.endalew@gmail.com

Sex

Male

Date of birth

28/01/1992

Nationality

Ethiopian

Work Experience

1. Lecturer 

December 2017 - present

Lecturer

Main responsibilities

Teaching, research and community service

Types of business or sector

Higher education

Name of employer

Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

2.  Graduate Assistant I

September 2014 – September 2016

Graduate Assistant I

Main responsibilities

Teaching, research and community service

Types of business or sector

Higher Education

Name of employer

Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Educational Background

1. PhD Student

October 2023~

Name of Academic Institution

1. Research Student

October 2022 – September 2023

Name of Academic Institution

Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

1. MSc Degree

September 2015 – November 2017

MSc in Agricultural Economics

Name of Academic Institution 

Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

MSc thesis 

Determinants of households’ willingness to pay for the conservation of church forests in northwestern Ethiopia

Thesis result

Excellent

4. BSc Degree

September 2012 - June 2014

BSc in Agricultural Economics

Name of Academic Institution

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

BSc thesis

Determinants of household food security in Mana Woreda, Ethiopia

Major courses

Econometrics, Introduction to Statistics, Statistics for Economists, Mathematics for Economists, Research Method, Operations Research, Microeconomics I & II, Macroeconomics I & II, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Project Planning and Analysis, Introduction to Computer, Farm Management, Agricultural Marketing, Rural Development and Food Security, Development Economics

Trainings 

12/01/2023-02/09/2023

Global Leadership Training Programme for Sustainable Development in Africa organized by United Nations University.

24/7/2017-28/7/2017

Adoption and Impact Assessment using STATA Computer Software organized by International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and Bahir Dar University.

6/10/2021-9/10/2021

Advanced model for R-Software organized by Bahir Dar University.

10/03/2020-14/03/2020

SPSS Software (Trainer)  organized by Bahir Dar University.

English language skills

Communication skills 

Good communication skill gained through teaching-learning process, participation in different social activities, teamwork and online English courses. 

Teamwork, coordination, planning, monitoring and evaluation

Certificates

1. Certificate of completion for Research Student in the Graduate School of sustainability Sciences Tottori University, Tottori, Japan. 
2. Certificate of completion for “Global Leadership Training Programme for Sustainable Development in Africa” organized by United Nations University.
3. Adoption and Impact Assessment using STATA Computer Software.
4. Best BSc Senior Research project of the year certificate of recognition from Jimma University, Ethiopia.
5. SPSS Software training provision to postgraduate and graduate class students in Bahir Dar University.
6. Certificates of reviewer

1. Online courses with certificates from Coursera

• Writing in the Sciences 
• Verb Tenses and Passives 
• Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers 

Job-related skills

• SPSS
•  STATA
• R
• EndNote (Reference management)
• Kobo Collect
• SigmaPlot
• Research report writing and publication.
• Problem identification and prioritization using participatory rural appraisal

Computer skills

• Microsoft office word, excel and power point.

Research interests

• Impact assessment
• Economic valuation of environmental resources
• Marketing and value chain analysis
• Technical efficiency
• Commercialization
• Livelihood analysis 
• Adoption  
•  Food security

Publications

1. Yednekachew Merkeb, Kumi Yasunobu, Asres Elias and Birara Endalew (2025). Does PSNP participation influence the extent and choices of household coping strategies to food insecurity? Evidence from Northwestern Ethiopia. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 19, 1-9.
2. Yednekachew Merkeb, Kumi Yasunobu, Asres Elias and Birara Endalew (2024). Comparative analysis of household food security and its determinants among Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) beneficiary, graduated, and non-beneficiary in Northwestern Ethiopia. Cogent Economics & Finance, 12(1), 1-15.
3. Birara Endalew, Asres Elias and Kumi Yasunobu (2024). Impact of cluster farming on smallholder farmers teff commercialization in Ethiopia. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 5(1), 1-12.
4. Asres Elias, Cheryll Casiwan Launio, Kumi Yasunobu, Yuki Toyama, Birara Endalew and Maryan J Altaki (2023). Technical Efficiency of Potato Producers in Benguet Province, Philippines. Environmental and Rural Development, 14-2, 80-86.
5. Birara Endalew, Mezgebu Aynalem, Adugnaw Anteneh, and Habtamu Mossie (2023). Sources of wheat production technical inefficiency among smallholder farmers in Northwestern Ethiopia: Beta regression approach. Cogent Economics & Finance, 11(1), 1-18.

1. Adugnaw Anteneh, and Birara Endalew (2023). Determinants of teff commercialization among smallholder farmers: Beta regression approach. Cogent Social Sciences, 9(1), 1-14.

1. Workneh Yenewa and Birara Endalew (2022). Willingness to Pay for Walking Tractor: Evidence from smallholder farmer’s in Northwestern Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Economics, 31(1), 101-121.

1. Birara Endalew, Adugnaw Anteneh, and Kassahun Tasie (2022). Technical efficiency of teff production among smallholder farmers: beta regression approach. The European Journal of Development Research, 34(2), 1076-1096.

1. Birara Endalew, Mezegebu Aynalem, Fenta Assefa, and Zemen Ayalew (2020). Determinants of wheat commercialization among smallholder farmers in Debre Elias Woreda, Ethiopia. Advances in Agriculture, 2020, 1-12. 

1. Birara Endalew, Beneberu Assefa Wondimagegnhu and Kassahun Tassie (2020).  Willingness to pay for church forest conservation: a case study in northwestern Ethiopia. Journal of Forest Science 66(3), 105-116.

1. Birara Endalew, Melese Zeleke, Workneh Yenewa and Zemen Ayalew (2020).  Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia.  Cogent Food & Agriculture 6(1), 1-12.

1. Kassahun Tassie and Birara Endalew (2020).  Willingness to pay for improved solid waste management services and associated factors among urban households: One and one half bounded contingent valuation study in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia.  Cogent Environmental Science 6(1), 1-26.

1. Birara Endalew and Beneberu Assefa (2019). Determinants of households’ willingness to pay for the conservation of church forests in northwestern Ethiopia: A contingent valuation study. Cogent Environmental Science 5(2019), 1-14.

1. Mezgebu Aynalem,Habtamu Mossie, Birara Endalew and Mohammd Adem (2019).  Empirical Analysis of Wheat Profitability the Case of Debre Elias Woreda, Northwestern Ethiopia.  IJAIR   7(5), 538-541.

1. Birara Endalew and Kassahun Tassie (2018). Urban households’ demand for improved solid waste management service in Bahir Dar city: A contingent valuation study. Cogent Environmental Science, 4(2018), 1-11

1. Kassahun Tassie  and Birara Endalew (2018). Assessment of Solid Waste Management Practices in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. Pollution 4(2): 251-261.

1. Birara Endalew, Kassahun Tassie and Zemen Ayalew (2018). Non-Market Measurement Techniques of Willingness to Pay, the Case of Environmental Resources: A Review. J. Agric. Environ. Sci. 3(2): 1-22.

Conference

1. Birara Endalew and Benebereu Assefa Wondimagegnhu (2019). Farm households’ willingness to participate for the conservation of church forest in South Gondar, Ethiopia.

References