Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource EconomicsFood Security Group

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Sustainable agricultural intensification in an era of rural transformation in Africa

  Published on March 26, 2019

  T. S. Jayne, Sieglinde Snapp, Frank Place, Nicholas Sitko. Sustainable agricultural intensification in an era of rural transformation in Africa, Global Food Security, Volume 20, March 2019, 105-113.

• Revisiting the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya

  Published on March 25, 2019

  Muyanga, Milu, and T. S. Jayne. 2019. Revisiting the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, March 2019.

• Can Conservation Agriculture Save Tropical Forests? The Case of Minimum Tillage in Zambia

  Published on November 14, 2018

  Hambulo Ngoma, Arild Angelsena, 2018. Can conservation agriculture save tropical forests? The case of minimum tillage in Zambia. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 97, December 2018

• Can Economic and Environmental Benefits Associated with Agricultural Intensification Be Sustained at High population Densities? A Farm Level Empirical Analysis

  Published on November 1, 2018

  Daniel Kyalo Willy, Milu Muyanga, and Thomas Jayne (2019). Can economic and environmental benefits associated with agricultural intensification be sustained at high population densities? A farm level empirical analysis. Land Use Policy, Issue 81

• Myanmar's Rural Revolution: Mechanization and Structural Transformation

  Published on November 1, 2018

  Myat Thida Win, Ben Belton, and Xiaobo Zhang, 2018. Chapter in Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics,edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly, and Chit Win (Singapore: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018).

• Myanmar's Fisheries in Transition: Current Status and Opportunities for Policy Reform

  Published on November 1, 2018

  Xavier Tezzo, Ben Belton, Gareth Johnstone, Martin Callow, 2018. Myanmar's fisheries in transition: Current status and opportunities for policy reform, Marine Policy 97 (2018) 91-100

• Resilience through Risk Management: Cooperative Insurance in Small-holder Aquaculture Systems

  Published on September 27, 2018

  James R. Watson, Fredrik Armerin, Dane H.Klinger, Ben Belton, 2018. Heliyon

• The Transformation of Rural Africa

  Published on September 25, 2018

  Edited by T. S. Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin, and Rui Benfica, this collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas.

• Economic Incentives to Use Fertilizer on Maize Under Differing Agro-ecological Conditions in Burkina Faso

  Published on September 15, 2018

  Veronique Theriault, Melinda Smale, Hamza Haider, 2018. Economic Incentives to Use Fertilizer on Maize Under Differing Agro-ecological Conditions in Burkina Faso, Food Security (2018) 1-15

• Emerging Trends in Aquaculture Value Chain Research

  Published on September 5, 2018

  Simon R. Busha, Ben Belton, David C. Little, Md Saidul Islam, 2018. Emerging Trends in Aquaculture Value Chain Research, Aquaculture 498 (2019) 428–434