**About the Editor**

### **Aaron K. Hoshide**

Aaron Kinyu Hoshide, PhD, is a sustainable agriculture researcher in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture at the University of Maine, USA. Dr. Hoshide conducts applied agricultural economic research on crops, ruminant livestock, and/or agro-forestry systems in Maine, USA, and Brazil, using sustainability indicators, enterprise/whole-farm budgets, risk analysis, and the integrated farm system model (IFSM). Dr. Hoshide is currently involved in estimating the economic threshold at which to rent honeybees or rely on native bees for Maine wild blueberries. He is also updating production costs for conventional and organic Maine wild blueberries for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Hoshide is advising graduate students modeling beef production systems and conducting extension outreach to agricultural producers in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. He is excited to continue collaborating with international students and/or researchers in Brazil, Pakistan, and other countries outside of the United States.
