Dessalegn Rahmato

DESSALEGN RAHMATO was formerly the Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, an independent policy research institution based in Addis Ababa. Before that, he was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Development Research, Addis Ababa University, which he left in 1997. He has published numerous works on land and agrarian issues, food security, rural resettlement, environmental policy, civil society and democratization. Dessalegn is the winner of the 1999 Prince Claus Award given...See more

DESSALEGN RAHMATO was formerly the Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, an independent policy research institution based in Addis Ababa. Before that, he was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Development Research, Addis Ababa University, which he left in 1997. He has published numerous works on land and agrarian issues, food security, rural resettlement, environmental policy, civil society and democratization. Dessalegn is the winner of the 1999 Prince Claus Award given by the Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands to individuals from the Third World considered to have made significant contributions to their societies See less