Mengistu Wendimu is an Agricultural Economist (PhD) with a significant experience in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research. At the time of writing this report, Mengistu Wendimu was a SSHRC-funded Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include farmland consolidation, financialization of agriculture, the social and environmental impacts of large-scale agriculture, agricultural labor studies and food security.