Berhanu Kefale Alemie (Ph.D., Associate Professor) is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Land Administration, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. His educational background and research interest covers a broad range of related themes such as land information, innovative technology for land mapping, land use and land cover, land consolidation and so on. He has a PhD Degree in Land Information Management: focusing on Socio-technical aspects of urban cadastre, from ITC faculty, University of Twente, The Netherlands and MSc Degree in Geoinformatics from the same university. Berhanu has more than 20 years of profound professional, academic, research, and consultancy experiences in the fields of Land Administration, Cadastre and Earth Sciences. Berhanu has also published scientific articles in peer reviewed and reputable and internationally recognized journals. 

Email: berhanukefale@gmail.com

Tel: +251 91 870 5203

Research Publication(s), Proceeding(s) and related academic publications

•           Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia; Rohan Mark Bennet; Berhanu Kefale Alemie; Mila Koeva (2025). Embedding (Semi-)Automatic Cadastral Boundary Extraction into Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration in Peri-urban Ethiopia, Land Use Policy, 150, 107453.

•           Getie Gebrie Eshetie, Berhanu Kefale Alemie, Abebe Mengaw Wubie (2024). Geospatial Technologies in Support of Responsible Land Tenure Governance: A Systematic Review. Elsevier, Geomatica, 26(2), 100014

•           Prosper Turimubumwe, Achamyeleh Gashu Adam, Berhanu Kefale Alemie (2024). Managing public urban lands for sustainable urban development in Bujumbura, Burundi: The role of land administration system. GeoJournal 89:10, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-024-10998-8.

•           Seidu Eshete Gebeyehu, Achamyeleh Gashu Adam, Berhanu Kefale Alemie (2023). The mediating role of governance in handling diverse and conflicting land interests in the peri-urban Ethiopia: A structural equation modeling analysis. Journal of Urban Affairs: https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2274556.

•           Tadesse Amsalu1, Berhanu Kefale (2023). Resettlement and land rights: Implication on land use and land cover change in Ethiopia. J. Agric. Environ. Sci. 8(2): 111-137. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jaes/v8i2.7

•           Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia; Rohan Mark Bennet; Berhanu Kefale Alemie; Mila Koeva (2023). Furthering Automatic Feature Extraction for Fit-for-Purpose Cadastral Updating: Cases from Peri-Urban Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Remote Sens. 15, 4155. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174155.

•           Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia, Rohan Mark Bennett, Berhanu Kefale Alemie and Mila Koeva (2023). Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration and the Framework for Effective Land Administration: Synthesis of Contemporary Experiences. Land, 12, 58. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/land12010058.

•           Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia, Rohan Mark Bennett, Berhanu Kefale Alemie, Mila Koeva (2023). The peri-urban cadastre of Addis Ababa: Status, challenges, and fit-for-purpose prospects. Land Use Policy (125), 106477.

•           Prosper Turimubumwe, Achamyeleh Gashu Adam, Berhanu Kefale Alemie (2023) Policy level analysis of public urban lands management in Burundi: insights for harmonization of policy frameworks. GeoJournal, 88, 3223–3237.

•           Mireille Biraro, Jaap Zevenbergen, Berhanu Kefale Alemie (2022). Updating land information systems created using unconventional approaches. African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 5(1).

•           Biraro, M.; Zevenbergen, J.; Alemie, B.K. (2021). Good Practices in Updating Land Information Systems that Used Unconventional Approaches in Systematic Land Registration, Land, 10, 437. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10040437.

•           Abebe M. Wubie, Walter T. de Vries, Alemie B.K., (2021). Evaluating the Quality of Land Information for Peri-Urban Land-Related Decision-Making: An Empirical Analysis from Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Land 2021, 10, 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010011.

•           Abebe M. Wubie, Walter T. de Vries, Alemie B.K., (2021). Synthesizing the dilemmas and prospects for a peri-urban land use management framework in Ethiopia, Land Use Policy, 100 (2021) 105122.

•           Abebe M. Wubie, Walter T. de Vries, Alemie B.K., (2020). A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Land Use Dynamics and Process of Land Intervention in the Peri-Urban Areas of Bahir Dar City, Land, 2020, 9, 445; doi:10.3390/land9110445.

•           Alemie B.K., and Tadesse Amsalu (2020). Does Land Tenure Insecurity Affect Forest Cover Change? Evidence from Gerejeda State Forest in Ethiopia. Journal of Land and Rural Studies 8(2) 101–120.

•           Koeva M., Bennett R., Markus G., Crommelinck S., Stöcker C., Crompvoets J., Ho S., Schwering A., Chipofya M., Schultz C., Zein T., Biraro M., Alemie B.K., Wayumba R., Kundert K. (2017). Towards innovative geospatial tools for fit-for-purpose land rights mapping. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences-ISPRS Archives 42, 37-43.

•           Bennett R.M. and Alemie B.K. (2016). Fit-for-purpose land administration: cases from urban and rural Ethiopia, Survey Review, 48(346), 11-20.

•           Alemie B.K., Zevenbergen J., Bennett R.M., (2016). Integrating the layers: an analysis of urban land governance in contemporary Ethiopia, East African Journal of Land Administration, 3(2), 392-409.

•           Alemie B.K., Bennett R.M., Zevenbergen Z. (2015). A socio-spatial methodology for evaluating  land  governance: the  case  of informal  settlements,  Journal of  Spatial Science, 60(2), 289-309.

•           Alemie B.K., Bennett R.M.,  Zevenbergen  Z. (2015). Evolving urban cadasters in Ethiopia: the impacts on urban land governance, Land Use Policy, 42, 695-705.

•           Alemie    B.K., Bennett, R.M., Zevenbergen Z. (2015). Urbanization, Land Administration and Good-Enough Governance, In ‘Advances in Responsible Land Administration’, Eds.  Zevenbergen, Z., de Varies, W., Bennett, R.M, CSC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Ongoing research

•           Promoting Responsible Land (Tenure) Governance for Land Degradation Neutrality in Northern Ethiopian Highlands: A Socio-Spatial Analysis. (PhD supervision).

•           Towards Geospatial-Based Mass Valuation Model Development for Urban Residential Properties: The Case of Bahir Dar City; Ethiopia (PhD Supervision).

•           Assessing Functional Integration of Ethiopia’s Rural and Urban Land Administration Institutions: Lessons from Amhara, Oromia, and Tigray National Regional States, LGA-USAID supported.