Raga M. Elzaki is an Agricultural Economist. She has been with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Gezira, Sudan since 1994. She was awarded the scholarship from DAAD (Germany) for PhD study in University of Khartoum and Giessen during 2001–2004. Dr Elzaki has published two papers on the livestock economic issues for poor tenants in Sudan. She is the main author of the research ‘Poverty among social groups, effects on farming systems and resources allocation: the case study of rural Sudan’ with support from the ERF, Egypt (June 2007). She is the leader of the ongoing project ‘Livelihood risk determinants facing female-headed households and role of the livestock in poverty eradication in western Sudan’.