I hold a B.Sc. in Rural Development & Agricultural Economics in December 1996 from the Faculty of Natural Resources & Environmental Studies, University of Kordofan in Sudan. I got an M.Sc. degree in Economics (Economic Policy Analysis) from the Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July 2002. I obtained a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Giessen University in Germany in November 2008.
I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher (from July 2008 to Dec. 2009) for BIOTA South Africa Project to build up a bio-economic model for the communal farmer in southern Namibia aimed at analyzing alternative strategies of range-land use for Boer goats production and with Living Landscape China (LILAC) Project (since Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2010) to develop a linear programming model for land use options in the south-west of China. Before that, I worked with Socio-economic Department in Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Ministry of Science & Technology in Sudan as a research assistant since 1997 and an economist researcher since 2002. At the present time, I am Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Production Engineering and Food Sciences “Institut für Betriebslehre der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften”, of the Justus Liebig Giessen University. Accordingly, I benefited greatly from working in different academic Research institutions by gaining considerable experience concerning natural resource use analysis. In addition, I experienced doing some managerial tasks concerning the delivery of the project outcome by the administration and conducting the farmers’ activities on resource use and marketing.
I am now an Assistant Professor at the Natural Resource Economics Department- College of Agriculture and the Marine Science University of Sultan Qaboos in Oman.