Dr. Hossein Azadi is a senior researcher at the Department of Geography (UGent). He holds a PhD in “sustainable rangeland management” using fuzzy modeling. He is familiar with decision support systems and spatial modeling in socio-economic aspects of environmental impact assessment. Recently, he is also a researcher at Centre for Environmental Sciences and Economics and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (ULg). Hossein has broadly been involved in agri-rural and development studies including 40 national and 7 international projects among which he steered 19 projects. Furthermore, he has published about 80 papers amongst a series of high impact factor journals. Formerly, as a post-doc fellow, he conducted two projects on “Global Land Grabbing for Food and Biofuels” at Groningen and Leiden universities, the Netherlands. Later, he conducted his third post-doc at SEG on “Monitoring Agricultural Land Conversion Induced by Urban Sprawl and Transportation in Northeast Iran”. In February 2015, he was awarded the American Fulbright grant to conduct a study on land governance together with Binghamton University, New York. He is also a member of editorial board in several journals. Holding this background, in 2010, Hossein joined SEG to launch a series of launch risk assessment studies on “Food & Land” policies focusing on land governance, land tenure systems, agrarian change in different agricultural food production systems (conventional, organic and GM crops), resilient agriculture, sustainable livelihood and vulnerability of farming systems.