Youssef M. Hamada, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economy at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt. In addition, he was a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Design and Statistics Analysis Research. He received his BSc in Agriculture Economics, his MSc in the economics of the bread industry, and PhD in the possibilities of the bread-industry development at A.R.E. from the University of Al-Azhar, Egypt. He received his Diploma in Translation Arabic-English from the Translation Center, American University, Egypt. He was awarded training from ECARDA, Aleppo, Syria, (training course for building databases and electronic websites on the Internet) and an International Training Workshop on Economic Development Policies and Practices for Desertification and Dry Land for Affected African Countries from the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China. He has published more than 30 papers in local and international journals as well as two book chapters and one book.