雨果·德格鲁特

Hugo De Groote is an agricultural economist and principal scientist emeritus with CIMMYT, based in Kenya. He received 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. His research activities include the economic analysis and participatory evaluation of new technologies (such as stress resistant and nutritionally enhanced maize varieties, crop and storage management), consumer acceptance of new maize products using experimental methods (including vitamin A biofortified maize, quality protein maize and aflatoxin tested maize), and analysis of policies and institutions relevant to these technologies and products (such as seed systems, input subsidies, credit and extension systems, and biosafety policies). Previous, he was coordinator of the biological control project at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in Benin, conducting economic analysis and participatory evaluation of biological control of pests such as water hyacinth, locusts and mango mealybug. He also worked in Farming Systems Research with the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), developing and evaluating new technologies, and evaluated group-based credit and loan associations with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), both in Mali. Before this research, he worked as an agriculturalist in rural development for Non-Governmental Organizations in Togo and Thailand.