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

News

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  Let Them Eat Carp

  Published on March 7, 2018
  Fish farms (aquaculture) are helping to fight hunger. An article by B. Belton (FSP Myanmar team) in The Conversation

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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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  FSP Researchers Lead Special JDS Issue

  Published on March 1, 2018
  FSP C4a (Upstream Global Research Policy) leader T. Jayne, and collaborators, are guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

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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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  Aflatoxins Jeopardize Food Safety and Entrepreneurial Food Processing Opportunities in Nigeria

  Published on February 16, 2018
  Aflatoxins make their way into numerous locally produced and processed maize based food items.

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  4th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference in Tanzania

  Published on February 16, 2018
  Theme: Integrating Food and Nutrition Security into Economic Transformation and Industrialization Agenda in Tanzania, 14–16 February 2018, Dodoma, Tanzania

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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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  Malawi Land Symposium video

  Published on February 12, 2018
  The 2016 Malawi Land Symposium summarized in a video, told by Flora Nankhuni, FSP NAPAS: Malawi Chief of Party.

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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.

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  What Are "Food Systems?"

  Published on February 6, 2018
  In a video for the World Food Program, Prof. T. Reardon explains "food systems" as a collection of value chains, like a tree diagram structure.... Farmers need trucks to transport their maize....