A proactive professional with over 25 years of experience in development, research, teaching, and project work in agriculture development, land rights, rural programs monitoring; gender and youth, capacity building and climate change. Worked with diverse international organizations and work cultures including the FAO office in Ethiopia and South Africa. Interested in rural livelihoods and development. Earned a PhD in Development Studies :Thesis: Farmers’ collective action and Agricultural Transformation University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa. MA in Development Studies. Thesis: Bridging the gap: land rights of rural women. Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands.1998. and BSc in Agricultural Economics, Thesis: Gender differentials in agricultural productivity. Alemaya University of Agriculture, Ethiopia. Recently worked as a senior research fellow at Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Dr. Etenesh Asfaw
In Ethiopia, through an FAO project, we facilitated the formation of community seed multiplication and distribution farmer groups for local seeds. The project helped to restore the biodiversity of lost seeds which were replaced by HYVs.