BUAN

Associate Professor Rejoice Tsheko

Associate Professor

Faculty of Agriculture
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering(ABE)

P/Bag 0027, Gaborone, Botswana
3650100
rtsheko@buan.ac.bw

Professor Rejoice Tsheko is an Agricultural/ Biosystems Engineer by training. With over 30 scientific publications in International recognized journals, and 24 years in the university system, Prof. Tsheko is a seasoned lecturer and researcher. Previously, Prof. Tsheko has led the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Land Planning as a Head of Department (2001 to 2007), he developed new academic programs and developed research themes and initiated collaboration with the industry. Prof. Tsheko has led numerous international research project.

In additional, Prof. Tsheko has also served on various Boards including, BITRI, Botswana Telecommunication CorporationLimited, a P1.5B turnover business. During his tenure this former parastatal was privatized and listed in the Botswana Stock Exchange thus making it the first and only one Government entity to privatize.

Areas of Specialisation

Engineering Mechanics,
Soil Mechanics & Foundations,
Remote Sensing,
Hydraulic Structures
Machine Elements Design.

Research interest areas

(1) Earth Observation (EO) and Remote sensing,
Natural Resources Management,
Water Engineering,
Hydraulic structures
AI applications.

UNESCO crosscutting on “the Application of Remote Sensing for Integrated Management of Ecosystems and water Resources in Africa”; European Space Agency (ESA) Sponsored Tiger Project; UNEP Desert Margins
Program (DMP); AMESD (Africa Monitoring of Environment for Sustainable Development) Program and MESA (Monitoring of Environment for security in Africa).

AJ-CORE AfriWUIFire collaborative Project

Publications

Agricultural and Biological/Biosystems/Bioresources Engineering Education: Global Perspectives and Current Practice” (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis). (in press)
Vrieling, A., Pini, G., Tapela, M., Tsheko, R., Urbano, F., Denis, A., Rembold, F., Nègre, T., Kerdilès, H., Royer, A., Capelle, B., Delaye, N., Franco, F., Bruggeling, P. (2018). Remotely Sensed Information for Crop Monitoring and Food Security. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Second National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Botswana’s 2 ^nd National Communication to the UNFCCC. Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism of the Republic of Botswana, 2012Refereed

scholarly/scientific journals articles: (selected)

Celestine Neba Suh , Rejoice Tsheko, Benedict Kayombo, Scott Thebeetsile Moroke. 2023. Analysis of land cover land use change in the greater Gaborone area of South Eastern Botswana. Acta Ecologica Sinica.
Moesi, M.S., Kayombo, B, Tsheko, R and E. Setlhabi. 2023. Soil erosion hazard assessment using the RUSLE model for the Taung Watershed of Ramotswa Agricultural District in Botswana. World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 2023, 09(01), 029–041. https://doi.org/10.30574/wjaets.2023.9.1.0129
Samuel Matyanga, Rejoice Tsheko, Anne Clift-Hill, Cecil Patrick. 2022. Assessing the potential of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) for sustaining small-scale irrigated coffee farming in the Bigasha watershed, Uganda. 07(02), 262–274
Kaduyu, I., Tsheko, R., Justin H Chepete, J.H and E. Kgosiesele. 2022. Remotely sensed dry matter productivity and soil moisture content as potential predictors of arid rangeland wildfires: A case study of Kgalagadi District, Botswana. World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 07(02), 143–156. https://doi.org/10.30574/wjaets.2022.7.2.0143
Suh, C. Neba., Tsheko, R., Kayombo, B and S.T. Moroke. 2022. Variation of soil organic carbon across different land covers and land uses in the greater Gaborone region of Botswana. World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 07(02), 097–112.
Tsheko, R. 2022. Non-seasonal Landsat based bare area gain detection in Botswana during 2002 to 2020 Period using Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC). South African Journal of Geomatics, Vol. 11. No. 1: 84-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sajg.v11i1.7
Tsheko, R. 2021. Land Cover Land Use (LCLU) Classification Methods in Semi-Arid Botswana. J Remote Sens GIS. 10: p497
Mosase, E.N., Kayombo, B., Tsheko, R. and M. Tapela. 2017. Assessment of the Sustainability of Rainwater Harvesting Areas Using Multi-Criteria Analysis and Fuzzy Logic. Advances in Research, 10 (4): 1 – 22.
Tsheko, R., Tapela, M., Mashungwa, G. and B. Kayombo. 2015. Sorghum yield and associated satellite-derived meteorological parameters in semiarid Botswana. African Crop Science Journal, 23(2): 151-164
Favier, J.F., Ross, D.W., Tsheko, R., Kennedy, D.D., Muir, A.Y. and J. Fleming. 1999. Discrimination of weeds in Brassica crops using optical reflectance and leaf texture analysis. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3543. SPIE International Symposium on Industrial and Environmental Monitors and Biosensors, G. E. Meyer, and J. A. DeShazer, (Eds.), ISBN:0-8194-3155-9, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.