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

Tanzania

News

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  Tough Questions

  Published on January 16, 2025
  A webinar series by MSU’s Food Security Group exploring critical issues in international development research, featuring leading experts tackling ethics, policy pipelines, A.I. impacts, and more.

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  Three new visiting scholars at the Food Security Group

  Published on September 28, 2022
  Visiting scholars from Tanzania and Nigeria settled in East Lansing to work with Food Security Group faculty

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  Launch of New Research Project in Nigeria and Tanzania

  Published on May 17, 2022
  Research Supporting African MSMEs to Provide Safe and Nutritious Food (RSM2SNF) Launching

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  $4M grant awarded for research on Nigerian and Tanzanian food systems

  Published on March 15, 2022
  Saweda Liverpool-Tasie wins $4M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue agrifood value chain research in Nigeria and Tanzania.

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  The 6th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) in Dodoma, Tanzania from 12th – 14th February 2020

  Published on January 9, 2020
  Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy will be supporting the 6th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) in Dodoma, Tanzania on February 12-14, 2020.

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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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  5th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference in Tanzania

  Published on February 12, 2019
  The 5th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) has kicked off in Dodoma, Tanzania, bringing leaders in the area to discuss progress and challenges.

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  "Rise of the Medium-Scale Farms" in The Citizen - Tanzania

  Published on November 20, 2018
  Article by Thom Jayne and Milu Muyanaga was featured in the December 20, 2018 print edition of The Citizen - Tanzania.

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  Land Pressure and African Agricultural Development

  Published on October 30, 2018
  An interview with Thomas Jayne, SciDevNet, 10/30/18

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  WEBINAR: Do Medium and Large-scale Farms Generate Income Spillovers for Rural Households?

  Published on October 30, 2018
  WEBINAR, Nov. 6, 2018, 10-11 AM - T. Jayne and J. Chamberlin: What's the impact of land acquisitions by foreign and local investors on smallholder households and rural communities?

Publications and Presentations

• Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain

  Published on September 30, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper 22. Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain

• Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.

  Published on August 18, 2022
  Dolislager, M., LSO Liverpool-Tasie, N.M. Mason, T. Reardon, D. Tschirley. 2022. Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Agricultural Economics.

• Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: Evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda

  Published on August 18, 2022
  Dolislager, M., Liverpool‐Tasie, L. S. O., Mason, N. M., Reardon, T., & Tschirley, D. (2022). Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: Evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Agricultural Economics.

• Farm-level production diversity and child and adolescent nutrition in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, longitudinal study

  Published on May 2, 2022
  Khonje, M. G., Ricker-Gilbert, J., Muyanga, M., & Qaim, M. (2022). Farm-level production diversity and child and adolescent nutrition in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, longitudinal study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(5), e391–e399.

• Consumption of processed food & food away from home in big cities, small towns, and rural areas of Tanzania

  Published on July 10, 2021
  Sauer, C.M., Reardon, T., Tschirley, D., Liverpool-Tasie, S., Awokuse, T., Alphonce, R., Ndyetabula, D., Waized, B. (2021) "Consumption of processed food & food away from home in big cities, small towns, and rural areas of Tanzania."

People

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  Thomas Jayne

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

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  Mywish Maredia

  Professor
  maredia@msu.edu
  517-353-6602
  

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  Nicole Mason-Wardell

  Associate Chairperson, Graduate Program Director, and Associate Professor
  masonn@msu.edu
  517-355-4563
  

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  David Mather

  Assistant Professor
  matherda@msu.edu
  517-449-9694
  

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  Isaac Joseph Minde

  Professor
  mindeisa@msu.edu
  +25 523-260-0742
  

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  Milu Muyanga

  Associate Professor
  muyangam@msu.edu
  

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  David Nyange

  Associate Professor
  nyange@msu.edu
  +255-754-272-573
  

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  Robert Richardson

  Professor
  rbr@msu.edu
  

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  Oyinkan Chukuka Tasie

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

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  David Tschirley

  Professor
  tschirle@msu.edu
  517-355-0134