Kenyan native Dr. Elliot Mghenyi was enrolled in the PhD program at Michigan State University in the Department of Agricultural Economics when he received his Borlaug LEAP Fellowship in Fall 2006. The main objectives of his research were 1) to study rules for efficient sharing of agricultural risks in the context of group credit contracts when members can bargain on the basis of common information about farmer-specific risks and common shocks; 2) to estimate the impacts of group credit on the demand for seed-fertilizer technology, farm labor (both family and hired), and maize yields; (specifically, the study will attempt to use detailed information regarding loan applications, group membership, current lending rules, and historical participation in credit markets to separate the demand side of the market from the supply side, which would enable econometric identification of the effects of credit access); 3) to study optimal commitments that could allow farmers with time-inconsistent preferences to benefit from trends in output prices. Dr. Robert Myers and Dr. Thomas Jayne at Michigan State University, and Dr. Hugo De Groote at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) mentored Dr. Mghenyi. He conducted his fieldwork in Kenya under the supervision of his CIMMYT mentor.  Dr. Mghenyi currently works as a senior economist for the World Bank in Washington, DC.