Dr. Kaihura is Tanzanian and is currently Senior Soil Scientist and Head of Natural Resources Management Research at the Ukiriguru Agricultural Research and Development Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in northwestern Tanzania.

He has worked for government and on several international projects since 1981. From 2000 to 2004, he has been working on an FAO project as a resource person in “Soil Productivity Improvement using the Farmer Field Schools approach” (SPI-FFS) in northwestern Tanzania to build capacity of extension staff and farmers as Soil Productivity Improvement Farmer Field Schools facilitators, and to monitor changes in soil and crop behaviour with tested soil management options. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Kaihura worked on a Global Environmental Facility-funded and United Nations University-implemented global project on “People, Land Management and Environmental Change” PLEC). The project worked to establish historical and baseline comparative information on agrodiversity and biodiversity at landscape level and to develop participatory and sustainable models of biodiversity management based on farmers’ technologies and knowledge within agricultural systems. Other activities include Soil erosion and Crop productivity relationships studies in collaboration with the Ecology and Development Programme at the Agricultural University of Norway. He has published several papers in journals and contributed chapters in some books.

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