Barnabas Marwire

Natural Resource Management Specialist
Natural Resource Management Specialist
Natural Resource Management Specialist
FAO – Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa
FAO – Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa
FAO – Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa

Banarbas Mawire is multi skilled development practitioner with more than 25 years’ experience in planning, designing, implementing and managing projects in the areas of Forestry and natural resources management, REDD+, sustainable livelihoods and food security and Humanitarian work. He has experience in drafting and implementing community Forestry projects focusing on timber and non-timber forest products and income generating projects for smallholder and resource constrained farmers.

In 1996 he joined the Forestry commission of Zimbabwe, as a District Forest Extension Officer, and worked for the organization up to 2001. For the period 2002 to 2017 he worked for Environment Africa (regional NGO), starting as a National community program coordinator and eventually rose through the ranks to be the organization’s Country director for Zimbabwe. From 2017 to 2019, he worked WWF Zimbabwe as a Sustainable Forest management Specialist, on a GEF 5 and World Bank supported project, promoting a landscape approach in scaling up sustainable forest and land management in the Miombo eco-region. In 2020, Banarbas joined FAO as a Sustainable Natural resources Management specialist.

Banarbas holds a MA in Development Management from Ruhr University in Germany; a post-graduate diploma in Projects Planning and managements from the University of Zimbabwe; BSc in Geography and Environmental Studies from the Zimbabwe Open University; and a diploma in Forestry from Cyprus Forestry College.

Publication:
Biofuels and economic Welfare, A cost benefit analysis of Jatropha Schemes in Zimbabwe (2008) Institute of development studies, Ruhr University Bochum.

He also contributed to a chapter in an academic journal:
Jatropha Myths and Truths: A preferred bio-diesel feedstock in the Miombo Woodlands, Journal of Agricultural Science vol. 1(4), pp. 67-88. July 2013 Special edition. ISSN: 2315-9162, ©2013 Wyno Academic Journals.

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