Shumetie, Arega
Watabaji, Mulugeta Damie
Article History
Received: 11 August 2018
Accepted: 25 April 2019
First Online: 27 May 2019
Authors’ information
: Arega Shumetie got his BA degree in 2005 from Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics. After serving for three consecutive years in government offices, he did MSc. degree in Agricultural Economics in Haramaya University, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science in 2010. After the MSc, he joined Haramaya University department of Economics to serve as a lecturer and researcher until he started PhD. in 2012. He did PhD. in Agricultural Economics in Haramaya University of Ethiopia and Makerere University of Uganda. The dissertation was on “Effect of Climate Variability on Crop Yield, Income and Rural Labour Displacement of Ethiopia”, which was defended on June 20/ 2017. Arega has a research interest on issues such as economic development and growth, climate change and variability, agricultural productivity, and environmental problems.Mulugeta Damie Watabaji is as Assistant Professor of Supply/Value Chain Management at the Haramaya University, Ethiopia. He is a teaching staff of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Value Chain Management, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science of the same university and Department of Accounting and Finance, College of Business and Economics at same university. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and a PhD Degree from the Division of Agri-food Marketing and Chain Management, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University, Belgium. His areas of research interest are agribusiness value chain management, enterprise development, and enterprises, chains and network innovations.
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