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Stefano Grando holds a PhD in Agrarian Economics from the University of Basilicata (Potenza, Italy) with a dissertation on organic farming, and a MSc in Regional Development from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Wales (Cardiff, UK).

He has been Research Fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and at the department of Economics of the University of Naples “Federico II”. He has worked in research project with the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Asturias (Oviedo, Spain) and as a consultant for the IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Currently he is Research Associate at the SPES Development Studies Research Centre of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

His research interests include rural development, local development, agricultural economics, rural sociology, economic development, rural-urban dynamics in developing countries, ecological economics.

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