BSc, MSc (Tanzania), PhD (Belgium)

Riziki Shemdoe is a consultant in sustainable utilization of natural resources and an experienced project manager. His experiences include: traditional knowledge in managing natural resources, wetland management, disaster and risk management, communication strategies, sustainable use of natural resources for improving human settlements in the rural areas, ecosystem health, dryland biodiversity, land use and resource management.

Shemdoe has worked on and administered a number of small grant research projects and consultancies funded by different organizations including WWF, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Man and the Biosphere Programme of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO-MaB), World Conservation Union (IUCN), ProVention Consortium, Research Programme for Sustainable Utilization of Dryland Biodiversity (RPSUD), The African Forest Research Network (AFORNET), Britain Tanzania Society (BTS) and TRAFFIC East & Southern Africa.

Shemdoe has worked on issues related to traditional knowledge, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem health and sustainable development. He worked as a Young Scientist Summer Research Fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria for three months on issues relating to sustainable development under the Initiative for Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS).

Shemdoe has attended and presented papers in different local and international fora on issues linked to natural resource management. He is employed at Ardhi University (ARU) as assistant research fellow where he also lectures project management and research methods as subjects to undergraduate students. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Forestry, anMSc in Management of Natural Resources for Sustainable Agriculture, both from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania and a PhD from Belgium.