Research Interest

  • Soil hydrology, irrigation agronomy, land suitability evaluation, modeling climate change impacts on soil properties and soil health and vice versa

Publications

Selected publications

1. Tesfu Mengistu, Heluf Gebrekidan, Kibebew Kibret, Kebede Woldetsadik, Beneberu Shimelis and Hiranmai Yadav (2017). The integrated use of excreta-based vermicompost and inorganic NP fertilizer on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) fruit yield, quality and soil fertility. International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture:1-15; DOI 10.1007/s40093-017-0153-y

2. Fanuel Laekemariam, Kibebew Kibret, Tekalign Mamo & Hailu Shiferaw (2018). Accounting Spatial Variability of Soil Properties and Mapping Fertilizer Types Using Geostatistics in Southern Ethiopia. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 49:1, 124-137, https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2017.1421656

3. Muluneh Minta, Kibebew Kibret, Peter Thorne, Tassew Nigussie, and Lisanework Nigatu (2018). Land use and land cover dynamics in Dendi-Jeldu hilly-mountainous areas in the central Ethiopian highlands. Geoderma 314:27–36

4. Endalkachew Fekadu, Kibebew Kibret, Asmare Melese, and Bobe Bedadi (2018). Yield of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) as affected by lime, mineral P, farmyard manure, compost and rhizobium in acid soil of Lay Gayint District, northwestern highlands of Ethiopia. Agriculture & Food Security, 7:16, 1-11.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-018-0168-2

5. Dejene Abera, Kibebew Kibret, Sheleme Beyene, and Fassil Kebede (2018). Spatial and temporal dynamics of irrigation water quality in Zeway, Ketar, and Bulbula sub-Watersheds, Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Science, 28(3): 55-77.

6. Wakshuma Yadesa, Abi Tadesse, Kibebew Kibret and Nigussie Dechassa (2019). Effect of liming and applied phosphorus on growth and P uptake of maize (Zea mays subsp.) plant grown in acid soils of West Wollega, Ethiopia. Journal of Plant Nutrition; https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2019.1567769

7. Tessema Torru and Kibebew Kibret (2019). Carbon stock under major land use/land cover types of Hades sub-watershed, eastern Ethiopia. Carbon Balance and Management: (2019) 14:7;

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-019-0122-z

8. Fitih Ademe, Kibebew Kibret, Sheleme Beyene, Mezgebu Getinet and Gashaw Mitike (2019). Rainfall analysis for rain-fed farming in the Great Rift Valley Basins of Ethiopia. Journal of Water and Climate Change.

9. Fikrey Tesfay, Kibebew Kibret, Aster Gebrekirstos and Kiros Meles Hadigu (2020). Changes in selected soil properties across a chronosequence of exclosures in the central dry lowlands of Ethiopia. Eurasian Journal of Soil Science, 9(2): 173-185.