Blessing Mutoro is a young self-motivated academic and researcher with strong research interest in land governance, land administration, rural and community development as well as agricultural transformations. With close to 3 years’ experience in the private sector, Blessing has been involved in thought provoking topics in several areas which include inter alia community engagement, land governance in Southern Africa, smallholder farming, contract farming ,climate smart agriculture, resilience and gender equality issues in Zimbabwe. She holds an Honours Degree in Economics and Masters Degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics both from the University of Zimbabwe. She is now an aspiring doctoral candidate in Economics or Agricultural Economics.