Youth Employment/Entrepreneurship
With 62% of Africa’s population being under 25 years of age, youth employment is crucial.
Early findings show that the productivity of youth labor (and rural labor in general) employed in both farming and non-farming sectors is significantly influenced by local farmland distribution patterns. Strategies that effectively improve productivity and profitability of farming are critical to expanding employment opportunities and improving youth livelihoods.
Publications and Presentations
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Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions
Published on December 6, 2017
T.S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Kwame Yeboah, Jordan Chamberlin, Ayala Wineman, Ward Anseeuw, Antony Chapoto, and Nicholas Sitko, Cape Town, South Africa, December 6, 2017 -
Pulled or Pushed out? Causes and Consequences of Youth Migration from Densely Populated Areas of Rural Kenya
Published on December 6, 2017
Milu Muyanga, Dennis Otieno & T. S. Jayne, Nairobi, Kenya, December 6, 2017 -
Geographies of Labor on Myanmar’s Marine Resource Frontier
Published on December 5, 2017
Ben Belton, Melissa Marschke, and Peter Vandergeest, Bandung, Indonesia, December 5, 2017 -
Can Smallholders Farm Themselves out of Smallholder Farming and Poverty?
Published on December 5, 2017
Milu Muyanga & T. S. Jayne, Nairobi, Kenya, December 5, 2017 -
The Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distribution
Published on December 3, 2017
Milu Muyanga, T. S. Jayne, Felix Kwame Yeboah, Antony Chapoto, Nicholas Sitko, 3rd Annual Global Food Security Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, December 3, 2017
People
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Thomas Jayne
MSU Foundation Professor emeritus
jayne@msu.edu
517-432-9802
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Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
MSU Foundation Professor
lliverp@msu.edu
517-432-5418
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Mywish Maredia
Professor
maredia@msu.edu
517-353-6602
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Felix Kwame Yeboah
Assistant Professor
yeboahfe@msu.edu
517-353-4667