Director - Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development Institute
Prof Kefasi Nyikahadzoi
Prof. Kefasi Nyikahadzoi is a New Institutional Economist specialising in environmental and natural-resource economics. His work focuses on designing robust innovation systems that govern natural resource use and strengthen agricultural support frameworks.
Publications
Journal Articles
1.Nyikahadzoi K, (2009), Challenges to collective action in the management of the Kapenta fishery in Lake Kariba, Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management, Volume 14, pages 337 – 351
2.Nyikahadzoi K, (2007), The influence of changing political and economic contexts of Zimbabwe on Co-management within the Limnothrissa Moidon (Kapenta fishing industry at Lake Kariba, Zambezia Volume XXXiv(i/ii), pages 79 – 95.
3.Nyikahadzoi K and Raakjaer, J, (2009), Policy evolution and dynamics of governance at Lake Kariba Kapenta fishery, Development Southern Africa, Volume 26, Number 4, pages 639-648.
4.Hara, M., F. Matose, D.C. Wilson, J. Raakjær, Lap. Magole, Lef. Magole, R. Demotts, F. Njaya, S. Turner, B. Buscher, T. Haller, P. Mvula, L. Binauli, H. Chabwela, C. Kapasa, L. Mhlanga and K. Nyikahadzoi (the CROSCOG Team). Commons Governance in Southern Africa. PLAAS Policy Brief 28 (2009), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape.
5.Nyikahadzoi K, Hara M and Raakjaer J, (2010), Transforming ownership and governance – lessons from capital intensive pelagic fisheries in South Africa and Zimbabwe, International Journal of the Commons, Volume. 4, Number 2, pages. 663–682.
6.Nyikahadzoi K et al, Siziba S, Nokoe S, Njuki J, Adekunle A (2010) Promoting effective collective marketing in the context of integrated agricultural research for development in Sub Saharan Africa, Learning Publics Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 82 – 97.
7.Siziba S, Nyikahadzoi K, Diange A Fantunbi O. A and Adekunle A, (2010), Determinants of cereal market participation by Sub Saharan Smallholder farmers, Learning Publics Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 180 -193.
8. Nyikahadzoi K Fantunbi O. A Adekunle A and Odularu G (2011), Promoting effective multi-stakeholder partnership for policy development for smallholder farming systems: A case of the Sub Saharan Africa Challenge Programme, African Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 6, Number 15 pp 3451 – 3455
9.Nyikahadzoi K, Siziba S, Mango N Diagne A and Adekunle A (2012) Impact of integrated agricultural research and development on adoption of soil fertility management technologies among smallholder farmers of Southern Africa, Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Volume 4 (19) pp 512 – 521.
10.Nyikahadzoi K, Pali P, Olarinde L.O, Njuki J, Adekunle A, Fantunbi O (2012) Stakeholder Participation in Innovation Platform and Implications for Integrated agricultural research for development, International Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Volume 2, Number 3 pp 92 – 100
11.Nyikahadzoi K, Siziba S, Mango N, Zamasiya B and Adekunle A (2013) The Impact of Integrated Agricultural Research and development on collective marketing among small holder farmers of southern Africa, Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural development, Vol 3 No. 5
12. Kefasi Nyikahadzoi, Byron Zamasiya, George Alex Muchinako and Charles Dziro (2013) Enhancing Social Support System for Improving Food Security Among the Elderly Headed Household in Communal Areas of Zimbabwe, Journal of Food Research Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2013
13.Nyikahadzoi K et al, Siziba S, Nokoe S, Njuki J, Adekunle A (2010) Promoting effective collective marketing in the context of integrated agricultural research for development in Sub Saharan Africa, Learning Publics Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 82 – 97.
14. Siziba S, Nyikahadzoi K, Diange A Fantunbi O. A and Adekunle A, (2010), Determinants of cereal market participation by Sub Saharan Smallholder farmers, Learning Publics Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 180 -193.
15. Nyikahadzoi K, Siziba S, Mango N, Mapfumo P, Adekunle A and Fatunbi O, (2012). Creating food self-reliance among the smallholders of eastern Zimbabwe: exploring the role of integrated agricultural research for development, Food Security: The science, sociology and economics of food production and access to food, Volume 4, Number 4, pp. 647 – 656
16.Nyikahadzoi K, Samati R, Motsi P. D, Siziba S and Adekunle A (2012). Integrated Agricultural Research for Development in the Context of Gender Differentiation: Improving the economic status of female-headed households among Zimbabwe’s smallholder farmers, Journal of Social Development in Africa, Volume 27, Number 2 pp 59 – 84
17. Siziba S, Nyikahadzoi K, Nyemeck J B, Diagne A, Adekunle A and Oluwole F (2013). Estimating Impact of Innovation Systems on Maize Yield: The case of IAR4D in Southern Africa, Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa, Volume 52 (3), pages 83 – 100.
18.Zamasiya B, Mango N, Nyikahadzoi K and Siziba S, 2014. Determinants of Soyabean Market Participation by Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, Volume 7, Number 4, pages 49 – 58
19.Nyikahadzoi K and Raakjaer J, 2014. The Myths and Realities in the Management of the Kapenta Fishery at Lake Kariba – Zimbabwe, Lakes and Reservoirs Research and Management, Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 1 – 10.
20. Mango N, Zamasiya B, Makate C, Nyikahadzoi K and Siziba S (2014 Factors influencing household food security among smallholder farmers in Mudzi District of Zimbabwe, Development Southern Africa, pages 1 – 16
21.Nyikahadzoi K and Zamasiya B, (2012) Creating Community-Based Fisheries Management Regimes Around Small Water Bodies of Zimbabwe: Zambezia, Volume 39 Number 1 of 2012
22.Mango N, Nyikahadzoi K, Makate C, Dunjana N and Siziba S, 2015. The impact of integrated agricultural research on food security among smallholder farmers of southern Africa, Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa, Volume 54, Number 3, pages 107 – 125
23.Nyikahadzoi K, Mombo, O, Zamasiya B & Warinda P (2017): Enhancing Household Food Security Under Changing Climatic Conditions: A Case Study of Gokwe North and Hurungwe Districts in Zimbabwe, Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2017.1297239
24.Zamasiya B, Nyikahadzoi K and Mukamuri B. B (2017). Factors influencing smallholder farmers’ behavioural intention towards adaptation to climate change in transitional climatic zones: A case study of Hwedza district in Zimbabwe –see letter and sample journal paper
25.Nyikahadzoi K., Mhlanga W., Madzudzo E., Tendaupenyu I. & Silwimba E. (2017): Dynamics of transboundary governance and management of small scale fisheries on Lake Kariba: implications for sustainable use, International Journal of Environmental Studies, DOI:10.1080/00207233.2017.1308159
26.Mukute M, Mudokwani K McAllister G, & Nyikahadzoi K, 2017, Exploring The Potential Of Developmental Work Research And Change Laboratory To Support Sustainability Transformations: A Case Study Of Organic Agriculture In Zimbabwe, Journal Mind, Culture and Activity, Volume 25, 2018 - Issue 3, Pages 229-246
27.Matsika A. B, Nyikahadzoi K., and Muridzo N. forthcoming, Blame Attribution in Rape Cases and Implications for Social Work Interventions: The Case of Juviniles Incarcerated for Rape at Zimbabwe’s Whawha Prison for Young Offenders, Zambezia, Journal of Humanities
28. Chikwaiwa, B. K.; Dzingirai, V; Nyikahadzoi, & Rusakaniko, S, 2018, Institutional And Personal Factors Influencing Adherence To Tuberculosis Treatment Among Patients in Harare, Zimbabwe, African Journal of Social Work, AJSW, Volume 8, Number 2
29.Mataruse, P.T., Nyikahadzoi, K. and Fallot, A., 2025. Climate and Land Use Changes in Murehwa District: Trends and Implications for Forest Ecosystems. Kugona-Ukwenelisa: Journal of Science Technology and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Development. 1(1), pp.146-162.
30. Mataruse P. T., Nyikahadzoi K. & Fallot A. (2021). Social-ecologically Driven Threats to the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Forests: A Case of Murehwa District. In Nyikahadzoi K. & Mhlanga L. (Eds) Climate Change Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation in Zimbabwe; Case Studies from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas (pp. 41-62). Conrad Adenauer Stiftung. Harare, Zimbabwe
31. Mataruse, P.T., Nyikahadzoi, K. and Fallot, A., 2022. Smallholder farmers' perceptions of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of deforestation and forest degradation: a case study of Murehwa, Zimbabwe. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, pp.1-10.
32.Mataruse, P.T., Nyikahadzoi, K., Fallot, A. and Perrotton, A., 2024. Using participatory mapping for a shared understanding of deforestation dynamics in Murehwa district, Zimbabwe. Cahiers Agricultures, 33, p.15
Book Chapters
1.Jackson J, Muriritirwa W and Kefasi Nyikahadzoi, 1998, An Analysis of Emerging Co-Management Arrangements in Zimbabwe's Inshore Fishery of Lake Kariba, Edts Norman K, Nielsen JR and Sverdrup Jensen S, Fisheries Co-Management in Africa, Workshop Proceedings in Malawi, Hirtshalls, Denmark, pages 99 – 12
2.Nyikahadzoi K, (2002), Contesting Inequalities in Access Rights to Natural Resources: Experiences with Zimbabwe’s Policies on Kapenta Fishery Management. Paper published in ‘Gehed K and Sarch M.T, African Inland Fisheries: The Management Challenge” pages 74 – 88.
3.Nyikahadzoi K, Mhlanga L and Haller T (2013). Fragmented management of natural resources in Lake Kariba environs, in Mhlanga L, Nyikahadzoi K and Haller T Fragmentation of Natural Resources Management Experiences from Lake Kariba, Lit, Berlin, pages 8 - 21
4.Mandima J and Nyikahadzoi K (2013) The case of land resources fragmentation and defragmentation in the Lake Kariba environs on the Zambezi in Mhlanga L, Nyikahadzoi K and Haller T Fragmentation of Natural Resources Management Experiences from Lake Kariba, Lit, Berlin. pages 23 – 36
5. Nyikahadzoi K, Mhlanga L, Hara M and Haller T, (2013), Defragmenting natural resource management within Lake Kariba environs, in Mhlanga L, Nyikahadzoi K and Haller T Fragmentation of Natural Resources Management Experiences from Lake Kariba, Lit, Berlin, pages 163 - 176
6.Adekunle A.A, Nyikahadzoi K., Siziba S., Mapemba L., Malidadi C. and Musinguzi E.I. 2011, Vegetable Production in the Thyolo District of Malawi, Putting heads together: Agricultural innovation platforms in practice, Suzanne Nederlof, Mariana Wongtschowski & Femke van der Lee (Eds.), Development, Policy & Practice, Bulletin 396, KIT publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 176 – 183
7.Adekunle A. A, Nyikahadzoi, K and Siziba S, 2013, Approaches to delivering impact from agricultural research and development: the case of the Sub Saharan Africa Challenge Program, Proceedings of workshop on Agricultural Innovations Systems in Africa, 29 – 31 May 2013
8.Mhlanga, W and Nyikahadzoi, K, (2016), Competing claims in Multipurpose Lake: Mapping resource conflict on Lake Kariba, in Intersectoral Governance of Inland Fisheries (eds) Song A. M, Bower S. D, Onyango P, Cooke S. J and Chuenpagdee R. pages xx - xx, St Johns, NL, Canada – see letter and sample.
9.Zamasiya B, Mataruse P. T, and Nyikahadzoi K, 2024, Determinants of Household Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers Under Changing Climates and Contexts: A Case of the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe, in Mhlanga L, Stack J, Nyikahadzoi K, Building Resilience to Climate Change in Selected Districts in Zimbabwe. Experiences from the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund Programme. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80529-5. Springer.)
10. Mukamuri B, Nyikahadzoi K, Dhlakama T and Zamasiya B, 2011, Effects of Climate Change: An Introduction, in Nyikahadzoi K and Mukamuri B B, Building Climate Change Resilient Communities in Africa: Insights from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
11.Zamasiya B, Nyikahadzoi K, Mukamuri B. B, 2011 Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM) Technique: A Case Study of Smallholder Farmers in Hwedza District in Zimbabwe, in Nyikahadzoi K and Mukamuri K. K, Building Climate Change Resilient Communities in Africa: Insights from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
12.Ruparanganda L, Nyikahadzoi K, 2011 Investigating the Effects of Climate Change on Households' Food Security and Community Response Strategies in Zimbabwe: The Case Of Female-Headed Households in Ward 30, Buhera District, in Nyikahadzoi K and Mukamuri B B, Building Climate Change Resilient Communities in Africa: Insights from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
13.Phiri C, Mhlanga W, Nyaguse G, Ndhlovu N, Nyikahadzoi K, The Impact of Climate-Change And Fishing Effort On Kapenta Catches In Lake Kariba, in Nyikahadzoi K and Mukamuri B B, Building Climate Change Resilient Communities in Africa: Insights from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
14. Nyikahadzoi K, Mukamuri B B, Zamasiya B, Enhancing the Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Of Communities In Zimbabwe: Insights From The Case Studies (Zimbabwe), in Nyikahadzoi K and Mukamuri B B, Building Climate Change Resilient Communities in Africa: Insights from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
Books
1.Mhlanga, L., Nyikahadzoi, K., & Haller, T. (Eds.) (2014). Fragmentation of Natural Resources Management: Experiences from Lake Kariba. PLAAS. Lit-Verlag Switzerland. www.lit-verlag.ch ISBN 978-3-643-90400-3.
2.Nyikahadzoi K. & Mhlanga L. (2021). Climate Change Impact. Adaptation and Mitigation in Zimbabwe: Case Studies from Zimbabwe’s Urban and Rural Areas. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
3. Mhlanga L., Nyikahadzoi K. & Stack J. (2025). Building Resilience to Climate Change in Selected Districts in Zimbabwe. Experiences from the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund Programme. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80529-5. Springer.)
4.Mhlanga L., Nyikahadzoi K. & Stack J. (2025). Building Resilience to Climate Change in Selected Districts in Zimbabwe. Experiences from the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund Programme. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80529-5. Springer.)
5.Byron Zamasiya and Kefasi Nyikahadzoi The Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Sector, in, Murombo T, Dhliwayo M and Dhlakama T, Climate Change Law in Zimbabwe, Concepts and Insights