Yonas T. Bahta currently works at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State as a senior Researcher/Lecturer. As a researcher, he was/is involved in several trade, agricultural trade , modelling (SAM, I-O model, CGE (Computable General Equilibrium model) and others), socio-economic, saving mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, marketing, price analysis, macro-economic, policy analysis, Finance, food security, and development related issues and consultant since 1996.