Hugo De Groote

Kenya Kenya

Agricultural Economist/Principal Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Education

I am a principal scientist/agricultural economist with CIMMYT in Kenya. I have an M.Sc. in tropical agriculture from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. My research activities include the economic analysis and participatory evaluation of new technologies (stress resistant maize varieties, nutritionally enhanced maize varieties, crop management techniques, …) and analysis of policies and institutions relevant to these technologies (such as seed systems, credit and extension, and biotechnology policies). Previous, I was coordinator of the biological control project at IITA, in Benin, conducting economic analysis...