Jane Nyaranga Ambuku Wamatu
Dr. Jane Wamatu has over 20 years of research, rural development, and teaching experience in various national and international research and development organizations. Currently, she is an associate scientist and small ruminant nutritionist at ICARDA. Her core areas of research include the multidimensional crop enhancement of barley and grain legumes for use as food-feed crops, and sheep nutrition.
Before joining ICARDA, Dr. Wamatu was a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. She also served as a program officer at Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a research assistant at Hohenhein University in Germany, and an agricultural officer within the Government of Kenya.
Dr. Wamatu holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in animal nutrition from the University of Hohenheim, and a master’s degree in appropriate technology and extension skills from Flensburg University in Germany.
Jane Nyaranga Ambuku Wamatu's Publications
Impact of Dried Thyme Leaf Meal on Production Performance, Egg Quality and Blood Parameters of Laying Hens
Local agro-industrial by-products offer feasible options to supplement breeding rams in mixed farming systems of Ethiopia
The Use of Biologically Converted Agricultural Byproducts in Chicken Nutrition
Effect of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) leaf meal supplementation on production performance and egg quality of laying hens
Oat–Field Pea Intercropping for Sustainable Oat Production: Effect on Yield, Nutritive Value and Environmental Impact
Optimizing near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Predict Nutritional Quality of Chickpea Straw for Livestock Feeding
Effect of Barley Variety on Feed Intake, Digestibility, Body Weight Gain and Carcass Characteristics in Fattening Lambs
Barley Straw Use for Animal Feed and Soil Mulch in Ethiopian Highlands Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems
Feasibility of heart girth models in estimating live weight of fat-long-tailed sheep
Effect of olive tree leaves and twigs on intake, digestibility, growth performance and blood variables of Shami goats
Analysis of crop residue use in small holder mixed farms in Ethiopia
Evaluation of desho grass (Pennisetum pedicellatum) hay as a basal diet for growing local sheep in Ethiopia
