Kurzprofil

Abed Al Kareem Yehya is a research associate at the Section of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, working on Kili-SES (Phase 1), a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The research group Kili-SES aims to capture the essential components of potential feedbacks between humans and nature—particularly the relationships among biodiversity, ecosystem services, human well-being, governance, and anthropogenic impacts. Kili-SES uses a fully integrated, interdisciplinary approach to better understand the dynamics of the social-ecological system on the southern slope of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, especially under the pressures of land-use change, climate change, and evolving governance structures.

He has over eight years of experience in interdisciplinary research, spatial analysis, and project coordination. During this time, he has worked as a researcher at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and later as a GIS Specialist and Coordinator at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He supported Lebanon’s food system convener on producing the first national pathway document for food system transformation. His research focuses on bridging science and policy in the areas of land use science, food systems, and food security, particularly in the Mediterranean region.

Abed received his PhD (Dr. agr.) from the University of Kassel, Section of Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics (OPATS). His dissertation, titled “The Effects of Rural-Urban Transformations on Land Use and Land Cover Change in Lebanon”, focused on spatial econometric analysis of land use change and biodiversity across Lebanese villages, exploring how local socio-economic dynamics and environmental pressures shape agrobiodiversity and rural landscape fragmentation.