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

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News

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  FSG Faculty Meets with Akin Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, 2017 World Food Prize Laureate

  Published on May 3, 2018
  “Agriculture is cool, agriculture is sexy.” —Dr. Adesina

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  Akinwumi Adesina receives Honorary Doctorate of Agriculture from MSU

  Published on May 2, 2018
  Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank Group and 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Agriculture from MSU on Friday, May 4, 2018.

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  Fish Farming Value Chain in Image

  Published on March 21, 2018
  A value chain is the entire series of activities and transactions needed to make a product and deliver it to consumers. See what it looks like with fish farming (aquaculture) in Myanmar.

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  New Web Site Launch

  Published on March 20, 2018
  You're visiting the Food Security Group at Michigan State University NEW WEB SITE!

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  Unlocking the Potential of the World’s Youth

  Published on March 19, 2018
  MSU AFRE Assistant Professor Felix Kwame Yeboah is the lead author of the 2018 Global Food Security Report and will present the report at the Global Food Security Symposium in Washington D.C. on March 22, 2018.

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  Let Them Eat Carp: Fish Farms Are Helping to Fight Hunger

  Published on March 7, 2018
  Fish farms (aquaculture) is helping the poor with food security in SE Asia. Ben Belton, The Conversation, March 2018

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  FSG Faculty T. Jayne leads special issue of the Journal of Development Studies

  Published on March 4, 2018
  Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation, Journal of Development Studies, 54(5), March 2018

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  Do Farmers Value Seeds of Different Quality Differently? Evidence from Willingness to Pay Experiments in Tanzania and Ghana

  Published on February 28, 2018
  There is no one-sizefits-all strategy to meet the seed needs of all the farmers. A new IDWP from M. Maredia and collaborators.

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  The Economist: How the Growth of Cities Changes Farming

  Published on February 15, 2018
  Ben Belton and Saweda Liverpool-Tasie in The Economist, Feb 15, 2018

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  FSG Quarterly Updates, February 2018

  Published on February 8, 2018
  See our latest Quarterly Updates, with access to all the publications and presentations from the last quarter.