Agrifood business, rural development, sustainable rural systems, agricultural technology transfer & commercialization, agri loans and access to credit by small scale farmers, food security, agrifood systems transformation, farm management, management of intellectual property rights (patents, plant breeders’ rights) in agribusiness, agricultural policy, science & innovation policy, agri-food traceability, research methodology (quantitative and qualitative), statistics analysis (SAS software) and data analysis software NVivo 11, gender studies analysis.