Victor Afari-Sefa, a citizen of Ghana, is an Agricultural Economist and the Global Theme Leader - Consumption at AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center. He is based at AVRDC’s Regional Center for Africa in Arusha, Tanzania. He has extensive experience in performance monitoring and impact assessment of horticultural value chains on smallholder livelihoods. In this present position, Victor leads and coordinates vegetable socioeconomic research in sub-Saharan Africa and globally. He worked as a Research Scientist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Center for Development Research in Bonn, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. His current research interests include gender disaggregated monitoring and evaluation, ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment studies of horticultural crop interventions, cost analysis of postharvest losses, and analysis of vegetables for food security and nutrition.