Tanzania
The capital is Dodoma and the largest city is Dar es Salaam.- The official languages are French and Swahili
- Area: 365,756 sq mi (approx. 3x the size of the State of Michigan)
- Population approx. 56 million in 2016
- Climate: Tanzania’s climate is tropical with coastal areas being hot and humid, while the northwestern highlands are cool and temperate.
Fun fact: Mt Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania and at 19,341 feet above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Africa.
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Publications and Presentations
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The Future of Work in African Agriculture: Trends and Drivers of Change
Published on December 1, 2017
T.S. Jayne, Felix Kwame Yeboah, and Carla Henry, International Labour Office, Working Paper No. 25, December 2017 -
Land markets and the distribution of land in northwestern Tanzania
Published on December 1, 2017
Wineman, A., and Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O. Land Use Policy, December 2017 -
Prospects for the Sectoral Transformation of the Rural Economy in Tanzania: A Review of the Evidence
Published on December 1, 2017
Todd Benson, Josee Randriamamonjy, Peixun Fang, David Nyange, James Thurlow, and Xinshen Diao, 2017. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 88. -
Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions
Published on November 16, 2017
T.S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Kwame Yeboah, Jordan Chamberlin, Ayala Wineman, Ward Anseeuw, Antony Chapoto, and Nicholas Sitko, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2017 -
Land Prices Heading Skyward? An Analysis of Farmland Values in Tanzania - Article
Published on October 16, 2017
Jayne, T., Wineman, A. Land Prices Heading Skyward? An Analysis of Farmland Values in Tanzania, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 40, Issue 2 (May 2018), 187-214, October 2017
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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
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