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On Agrilinks: Creating an Enabling Environment for a Youth in Ag
Published on August 7, 2018
Recommendations to create an enabling environment to fully harness young people’s innovativeness and energies for inclusive agricultural transformation. -
Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition Policy Coherence
Published on June 26, 2018
Food security involves many sectors and partners requiring to make sure that policy is coherent across sectors. How then do governments ensure policy congruence? -
Gender-responsive Nutrition Policies – A Myth or a Possibility?
Published on June 11, 2018
Policymakers often incorrectly understand gender to mean addressing women’s issues. E. Mkandawire and S. Hendriks explain in an Agrilinks blog. -
Building Resilience through Better Policies
Published on June 15, 2018
How is FSP addressing resilience through policies? The multi-pronged strategy is illustrated with examples of the Lab’s outputs, in Agrilinks, June 15, 2018 -
Youth for Growth, Transforming Economies through Agriculture
Published on March 29, 2018
A Report by Felix Kwame Yeboah, Principal Author (FSP C4a), sponsored by the Chicago Council for Global Affairs -
Where in the World is FSP?
Published on January 5, 2016
FSP works in Myanmar and Bangladesh in Asia, and in eight African countries or regions: Africa Great Lakes Coffee Region (Burundi and Rwanda), Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, West Africa Region, and Zambia. -
What Is a Value Chain? The Example of Aquaculture
Published on March 22, 2018
Aquaculture (fish farming) is a fast growing economic sector in SE Asia. Farmed fish is an integral part of the poor diet, and contributes to food security. -
Seminar on Myanmar’s Rural Transformation at MSU
Published on May 16, 2019
Dr. Ben Belton, will be discussing recent findings of large scale surveys implemented by FSP in Myanmar and the need for policies in order to support successful livelihood diversification and leverage greater value from existing agri-food value chains. -
Why the Influence of Agricultural Policy Research is Probably Greater than We Think
Published on June 30, 2018
We believe there are at least three categories of impactful policy-oriented research that development organizations should be promoting, even though it may be difficult to track the immediate impact of such research on a policy change. -
7 Unmistakable Signs of Agri-food Systems Transformation in Africa
Published on April 10, 2018
It's happening, and offers many investment opportunities. A seminar by Jayne & Kray, Ministry of Agriculture, Gvt of Tanzania, April 10, 2018 -
Diet transformation in South Eastern Africa
Published on October 3, 2017
Diets are transforming in 3 important ways. This means a change in the entire agrifood system. See D. Tschirley's presentation at ILSI. -
A Global Food Security Symposium
Published on December 3, 2017
FSP’s downstream and upstream food system transformation team organized symposium: "Changing food systems and nutrition: Do we have the concepts and data to understand, track, and anticipate the links?" -
Webinar: The Rise of Medium-scale Farms in Africa
Published on May 23, 2017
Watch T. Jayne's CGIAR webinar highlighting the causes and consequences of changing farm size distributions in sub-Saharan Africa. -
The Transformation of Rural Africa
Published on September 25, 2018
Edited by T. S. Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin, and Rui Benfica, this collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas. -
Surprising Facts about Africa’s Rapidly Expanding Middle Class
Published on January 5, 2017
With the rapid rise of the middle class to about one-third of Africa’s population, we observe important changes in food consumption. These impact the entire agrifood system. -
Spinning the Kaleidoscope Model
Published on June 22, 2018
The complexity of the policy process can be analyzed with the Kaleidoscope Model that helps identify 16 variables at play during the design and implementation of a policy. -
FSP and MSU AFRE are recognized at AAEA Annual Meeting
Published on August 1, 2017
The AAEA is the world's leading professional association for Agricultural and Applied Economics, and several FSP faculty from MSU AFRE department were well recognized at its 2017 Annual Meeting. -
More and Better Jobs for Youth in Agrifood System
Published on May 12, 2017
VIDEO: By 2050, it is estimated that 864 million people in Africa will live in cities, and 10 million young people will join the labor market every year. What implications? Can the agrifood sector development be the solution? -
“Urbanization, Food Systems and the Diet Transformation in Developing Countries”
Published on January 31, 2017
David Tschirley was the Keynote Speaker at "Hungry Cities: The Global Revolution in Food Systems" conference, January 23, 2017, La Jolla, CA -
At Last, Evidence that African Agriculture is Powering Economic Transformation
Published on January 4, 2017
The evidence is now in and the verdict is that Africa´s agriculture is powering economic transformation in the region. African agriculture has shown remarkable improvement compared to its precarious state 15 years ago. However...