Josephat Hella is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of Trade and Investment (DTI), College of Economic and Business Studies (CoEBS). He has been involved in teaching multiple disciplines such as agriculture economics, rural extension, economic planning, macro-economics, farm management and project planning and evaluation. This include supervising students at both levels in their research activities.
His research areas of interest includes Economics and decision making of smallholder farmers in semi-arid climate, Economics of soil erosion, Climate change and climate smart agriculture, Ecological farming and organic agriculture, Economics and value chain of dry- land crops especially groundnuts, sorghum, cowpea and pigeon pea.