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Bekele Hundie Kotu is an agricultural economist at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (www.iita.org). He holds PhD in agricultural and resource economics. His research interest lies in the areas of sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture and resilience of smallholder livelihoods. His studies aim at assessing ex-ante and ex-post impacts of new agricultural technologies, profitability of new agricultural technologies, and, among others, the interlinkages among microeconomic variables such as resilience capacity, commercialization, diversification, and food security. Bekele has also conducted multiple studies on institutional analysis of common property resources with special focus on pastoral areas in Ethiopia. His research covers several Africa countries including Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali, and Ethiopia.