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PhD
Telephone: +31 71 5273372
Fax: +31 71 5273344
E-mail: m.s.bekele@ascleiden.nl
Maru Shete Bekele is a PhD fellow at the Netherlands Academy for Land
Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development (LANDac), hosted by the
African Studies Centre (ASC) at Leiden University. He is working on a
research topic: Impact of Large Scale Land Acquisition on Equitable and
Sustainable Development in Ethiopia. He is being supervised by Prof. Ton
Dietz (ASC, Leiden University), Prof. Annelies Zoomers (IDS, Utrecht
University), and Dr. Marcel Rutten (ASC, Leiden University). He did three
different master’s degrees: MA degree in Regional and Local Development
Studies from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) in 2004; MSc degree in
Development and Resource Economics from the Norwegian University of Life
Sciences (Norway) in 2007; and a third Msc degree in Tropical Ecology and
Natural Resource Management again from the Norwegian University of Life
Sciences in 2010. He obtained his bachelor degree in Agricultural Extension
from the former Alemaya University of Agriculture in 1998 (Currently
re-named as Haromaya University). He has over eight years of research and
teaching experience and published articles in the field of development
studies. In 2010, he won a research fellowship from the Future Agricultures
Consortium Early Career Fellowship Program to work on land deal issues in
Ethiopia. He served as a Research Director with the rank of Assistant
Professor at St. Mary’s University College in Ethiopia until he started his
doctoral studies in August 2011. His main area of research interest
includes: land tenure and land deal issues for commercial agriculture,
impact and livelihood studies, poverty and food security issues in Africa.
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