Edward Gitta is an Agricultural Economist and Rural Enterprise Development professional with over 18 years of experience in enterprise and partnership development, agricultural commercialization, and producer organizational development through value chains development by linking producers to markets, technology transfer, commodity marketing and agro-inputs, rural financing, rural agricultural project planning and management. He has expertise in developing the capacity of producer organizations through business skills development, training and providing continuous mentoring; as well as the development of out-grower schemes for commodity buyers and climate-smart agriculture. He amassed his experience working on USAID & DANIDA funded agriculture development projects as a value chain manager & producer organisation specialist across Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture and a Master of Science in Development Management. He is the technical Lead and serves as the Program Manager who oversees all contracted programs.