Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Food Security Group

News

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  MSU Researchers Launch New App to Help African Farmers and Purchasers

  Published on August 28, 2021
  Researchers in the Departments of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and Community Sustainability have developed a new mobile phone app with the potential to help millions in West Africa.

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  Nigerian Agricultural Policy Project Leaves a Lasting Impact

  Published on February 22, 2021
  NAPP has enhanced Nigeria’s ability to conduct evidence based agricultural policy research, influenced agricultural policy, and disseminated agricultural research findings to key stakeholders throughout the country.

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  Research on Farm Input Subsidies has Important Implications for African Policymakers

  Published on October 3, 2019
  University Foundation Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics (AFRE), Thomas Jayne, recently spoke to African policymakers at the African Green Revolution Forum in Ghana.

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  On Agrilinks: Building Resilience in Nigerian Agriculture

  Published on December 6, 2018
  Recommendations for the Nigerian agricultural system to embrace resilience through three principles, in order to feed its population into the future under highly uncertain conditions.

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  The Quiet Revolution in Food Systems in Africa & Asia

  Published on October 17, 2018
  Thomas Reardon: This video explains how a convergence of factors is provoking tsunami like rapid changes in the agrifood system of Africa. Keynote lecture for the Nigeria Association of Agricultural Economists, October 17, 2018

Publications and Presentations

• Les impacts économiques du COVID-19 en Afrique urbaine et rurale: Des résultats inattendus dans cinq pays

  Published on September 24, 2021
  Les résultats sont présentés suivant deux aspects : 1) les impacts sur le revenu et la pauvreté et 2) les impacts sur la consommation alimentaire et la sécurité alimentaire.

• Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project: Final Report

  Published on July 14, 2021
  This Report is the Final Technical Report of the Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID-Nigeria) under Associate Cooperative Agreement Number AID-620-LA-15-00001.

• Essential non-essentials” Five policy myths about African food value chains, with implications during COVID-19 and beyond

  Published on February 22, 2021
  Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Tom Reardon, Ben Belton, 2021. Essential non-essentials” Five policy myths about African food value chains, with implications during COVID-19 and beyond. FSP Policy Research Brief 125.

• Barriers to national renewable energy policy adoption: Insights from a case study of Nigeria

  Published on November 12, 2020
  Adelaja, A. O., (2020). Barriers to national renewable energy policy adoption: Insights from a case study of Nigeria. Energy Strategy Reviews, 30, 100519.

• Mycotoxin reduction through lactic acid fermentation: Evidence from commercial ogi processors in southwest Nigeria

  Published on November 6, 2020
  Ademola O, Saha Turna N, Liverpool-Tasie L.S., Obadina A, Wu F (2020). Food Processing and Mycotoxin Reduction in Maize-Based Products: Evidence from Lactic Acid Fermentation in Southwest Nigeria. Food Control

People

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  Thomas Jayne

  MSU Foundation Professor
  jayne@msu.edu
  517-432-9802
  

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  Saweda Liverpool-Tasie

  Associate Professor
  lliverp@msu.edu
  517-432-5418
  

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  Steve Longabaugh

  Specialist International Development
  longabau@msu.edu
  517-432-0018
  

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  Mywish Maredia

  Professor
  maredia@msu.edu
  517-353-6602
  

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  Thomas Reardon

  University Distinguished Professor
  reardon@msu.edu
  

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  Laura Schmitt Olabisi

  Associate Professor
  schmi420@msu.edu
  517-432-4128
  

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  Oyinkan Chukuka Tasie

  Assistant Professor
  otasie@msu.edu
  517-355-0131