Maganizo Kruger

Nyasulu

PhD

Centre associate

kruger.nyasulu@su.se

+46 8 6 747 424

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  • Sustainable Finance
  • Earth system science
  • Risk Analysis & Management
  • Water resources
  • Agricultural Food Systems
  • Dynamical & Socio-ecological systems modeling
  • Economics

Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu is a complex systems scientist working at the intersection of finance, nature, and climate.

Nyasulu is currently part of the FinBio Project. His research focuses on addressing key research and policy gaps in financing nature, including adaptation, mitigation, restoration, and conservation.

He approaches this work through two complementary lenses: assessing nature-related financial risks, and developing innovative financing mechanisms and infrastructure to mobilize and scale investment into natural systems. His work aims to bridge scientific insight with practical financial and policy applications.

Nyasulu is a Career Development Fellow at the University of Oxford. He completed his PhD at Stockholm Resilience Centre and is also a guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Supervision

MSc Student: Ellinor Pehrsson

Publications by Nyasulu, Maganizo Kruger

Time to recognize the ecosystem service of vegetation-supplied precipitation in management and governance

Journal / article | 2024

Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Patrick Keys, Arie Staal, Jolanda Theeuwen, Nico Wunderling, Stefan Dekker, Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu, Ingo Fetzer, Rafaela Flach, Michael J. Lathuillière, Simon Fahrländer, Fernando Jaramillo, Line Gordon, Chandrakant Singh, Ruud van der Ent, Jose Andres Posada, Michele-Lee Moore, Mingzhu Cao. 2024. Time to recognize the ecosystem service of vegetation-supplied precipitation in management and governance. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19880

Globally, 60% of the evaporation from land returns as precipitation over land and a fifth of annual precipitation over land is directly dependent on the presence of vegetation-supplied moisture. In many regions, particularly in dry seasons, a majority of the precipitation relies on moisture from vegetation and is therefore vulnerable to changes in upwind land use that modify water moisture supply to the atmosphere. The benefit...

Global terrestrial moisture recycling in Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Journal / article | 2024

Arie Staal, Pim Meijer, Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu, Obbe Tuinenburg, Stefan Dekker. 2024. Global terrestrial moisture recycling in Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8049

The global water cycle has undergone considerable changes since pre-industrial times due to global climate change and land-use changes. These drivers will almost certainly continue to change during the course of this century. However, where, how, and to which extent terrestrial moisture recycling will change as a result remains unclear. Mutually consistent scenarios of climate change and land-use changes for the 21 st centur...

African rainforest moisture contribution to continental agricultural water consumption

Journal / article | 2024

Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Fabian Stenzel, Dieter Gerten, Johan Rockström, Malin Falkenmark. 2024. African rainforest moisture contribution to continental agricultural water consumption. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109867

Precipitation is essential for food production in Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 80 % of agriculture is rainfed. Although ∼40 % of precipitation in certain regions is recycled moisture from Africa's tropical rainforest, there needs to be more knowledge about how this moisture supports the continent's agriculture. In this study, we quantify all moisture sources for agrarian precipitation (African agricultural precipitatio...