Dessalegn Rahmato

Dessalegn Rahmato (Amharic: ደሳለኝ ራህማቶ) is an Ethiopian sociologist. He was born in 1940 in Adama and he studied in the United States. He is specialized in agricultural development, famine and resettlement.

In 1970, Rahmato published his first important article on the necessity of lasting and dedicated research within the field of agricultural studies, The Conditions of the Ethiopian Peasantry. He wrote the article in Challenge that is published by Ethiopian Students Union in North America (ESUNA).

At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st Century, Rahmato works on research on the food security in Ethiopia, after many agricultural sites had been bought by speculators from other countries like Saudi Arabia.