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

August

Economic and Social Dimensions of Aquaculture Growth: Implications for Sustainability
Ben Belton, World Aquaculture Society, Montpellier, France, August 28, 2018

The “Quiet Revolution” in Aquaculture Value Chains
Ben Belton, World Aquaculture Society, Montpellier, France, August 27, 2018

Do Different Extension Approaches Affect Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness-to-Pay for New Agricultural Technologies? Experimental Auction Results from Tanzania
Stephen N. Morgan, Nicole M. Mason, and Mywish Maredia, Michigan State University, August 7, 2018

What farmers want: Mapping Zambian smallholders’ agricultural policy preferences
Nicole M. Mason, Vincenzina Caputo, Danielle Resnick and Auckland Kuteya, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 7, 2018

Does Sustainable Intensification of Maize Production Enhance Child Nutrition? Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Jongwoo Kim, Nicole M. Mason, and Sieglinde Snapp, 2018 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 6, 2018

Dis-incentivizing Sustainable Intensification? The Case of Zambia’s Fertilizer Subsidy Program
Stephen Morgan, Nicole Mason, Kendra Levine and Olipa Zulu-Mbata, 2018 International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), August 1, 2018

July

Does Sustainable Intensification of Maize Production Enhance Child Nutrition? Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Jongwoo Kim, Nicole M. Mason, and Sieglinde Snapp, 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE 2018), Vancouver, Canada, July 30, 2018

Recent Innovations to Zambia’s Farmer Input Support Program & Insights on Short-run Effects
Nicole M. Mason, Auckland Kuteya & Hambulo Ngoma, International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Vancouver, Canada, July 30, 2018

Intrahousehold Productivity Differentials and Land Quality in the Sudan Savanna of Mali
Melinda Smale, Veronique Theriault, Hamza Haider and Alpha Kergna, Presented at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 28–August 2, 2018

Quiet Revolutions in Aquaculture & Poultry Value Chains in Africa & Asia
Tom Reardon, Ben Belton, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, MSU; Ricardo Hernandez, CIAT, ICAE 2018, Vancouver, BC, July 29, 2018

Transformative Innovation in Food Value Chains in Africa & Asia
Tom Reardon, Ben Belton, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, MSU; Ricardo Hernandez, CIAT; Bart Minten, IFPRI, ICAE 2018, Vancouver, BC, July 29, 2018

Pathways for Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and Drivers of Change
F. Kwame Yeboah and Thomas S. Jayne, GIZ Expert talk on Empirical Evidence and Impact Measurement for Rural Youth Employment, Bonn, Germany, July 5, 2018

June

Why the Influence of Agricultural Policy Research is Probably Greater than We Think
Thomas Jayne, Thomas Reardon, Mywish Maredia, David Tschirley, Agrilinks, June 30, 2018

Africa’s Agrifood System and Youth Employment: Trends and Drivers of Change
F. Kwame Yeboah and Thomas S. Jayne, GIZ Webinar Series on Agricultural Value Chains, June 26, 2018

Rapid Dual Transformation of the “Hidden Middle” of African & Asian Food Systems
Thomas Reardon, FIPP Keynote at IFPRI, Washington, DC, June 26, 2018

Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition Policy Coherence
Sheryl Hendriks and Nic Oliver, Agrilinks, June 26, 2018

AGLC "Closing Workshop"
Dan Clay, R. A. Church, A. Gerard, M. C. Lopez, D. Ortega with Joseph Bigirimana, Alfred Bizoza, Daniel Rukazambuga, and Kathryn Bowman, Kigali, Rwanda, June 26, 2018

Ask the Expert Webinar: "Strengthening National Policy Systems: Bridging the Disconnect between the Evidence and Action for Food Security"
Suresh Babu and Duncan Boughton, Agrilinks, Washington, DC, June 25, 2018

IAPRI-MSU Technical Training: Intro to Applied Econometrics: Basic theory and Stata examples
Nicole Mason, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Lusaka, Zambia, June 25, 2018

APRI-MSU Technical Training: Intro to Economic Experiments with a Focus on Framed Field Experiments
Hambulo Ngoma & Nicole Mason, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Lusaka, Zambia, June 22, 2018

Are Medium-scale Farmers Driving Agricultural Transformation in Africa?
Thomas Jayne, Agrilinks, June 21, 2018

Food Systems Transformation in West Africa: Implications for Jobs and Policy
Tom Reardon and Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, OECD Seminar: Urbanization, Food Economy, Employment, and Women, Paris, France, June 18, 2018

Human Health and Pesticide Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Meghan Sheahan in collaboration with Christopher B. Barrett and Casey Goldvale, Cornell University, June 14, 2018

Africa’s Emerging Herbicide Revolution
Steve Haggblade, World Bank/ICABR Conference, Washington DC, June 14, 2018

Regional Pesticide Regulatory Challenges in West Africa
Amadou Diarra, World Bank/ICABR Conference, Washington, DC, June 14, 2018

Industry Efforts to Combat Counterfeit and Other Illegal Pesticides
Bama O. Yao, World Bank-International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research Conference, Disruptive Innovations and Rural Development
Washington DC, June 14, 2018

The “Hidden Middle" of Dairy Value Chains: An Organizational Economics Analysis of Processor Strategies in Mali
Ryan Vroegindewey, Veronique Theriault, Robert B. Richardson, Kimberly Chung, Poster at the World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13–14, 2018

Dual Disruptive Transformation of African & Asian Food Systems
Tom Reardon, Bart Minten, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, David Tschirley, Ricardo Hernandez, Ben Belton, David Zilberman, ICABR-World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13, 2018

Can Malawi Increase its Share of the Global Macadamia Market? Opportunities and Threats to the Expansion of Malawi’s Macadamia Industry
Justin P. du Toit, Dr Flora J. Nankhuni and Joseph S. Kanyamuka, Poster at the World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13–14, 2018

Opportunities to Enhance the Competitiveness of Malawi’s Tea Industry: Evidence from an Analysis of the Tea Value Chain
Justin P. du Toit, Flora J. Nankhuni, Joseph S. Kanyamuka, World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13, 2018

Is the Future of Malawi’s Pigeon Pea Industry at the Mercy of India? An Analysis of Malawi’s Pigeon Pea Value Chain
Flora Nankhuni, Nathalie Me-Nsope, Joseph Kanyamuka & Christone Nyondo, World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13, 2018

Analysis of the Value Chain for Root and Tuber Crops in Malawi: The Case of Cassava
Joseph S. Kanyamuka, Joseph K. Dzanja, and Flora J. Nankhuni, World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13, 2018

Africa’s Emerging Herbicide Revolution: Farm-level impacts
Melinda Smale, World Bank/ICABR Conference, Washington DC, June 13-14, 2018

East African Community Efforts to Harmonization Pesticide Regulatory Systems: A Model Approach for Regional Solutions
Jason Sandahl, World Bank, June 13-14, 2018

Retailing of Processed Foods in Mali: Evidence from a City-retail Outlet Inventory
Veronique Theriault, Ryan Vroegindewey, Amidou Assima, NAREA, June 12, 2018

Gender-responsive Nutrition Policies – A Myth or a Possibility?
Elizabeth Mkandawire (University of Pretoria) and Sheryl Hendriks (University of Pretoria), Agrilinks, June 11, 2018

Africa’s Emerging Herbicide Revolution
Steven Haggblade, World Bank/ICABR Conference, Washington DC, June 14, 2018

Regional Pesticide Regulatory Challenges in West Africa
Amadou Diarra, World Bank/ICABR Conference, Washington, DC, June 14, 2018

Industry Efforts to Combat Counterfeit and Other Illegal Pesticides
Bama O. Yao, World Bank-International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research Conference, Disruptive Innovations and Rural Development, Washington DC, June 14, 2018

Human Health and Pesticide Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Meghan Sheahan, Christopher B. Barrett and Casey Goldvale, Cornell University, June 14, 2018

Dual Disruptive Transformation of African & Asian Food Systems
Tom Reardon, Bart Minten, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, David Tschirley, Ricardo Hernandez, Ben Belton, David Zilberman, ICABR-World Bank, Washington, DC, June 13, 2018

Malawi Groundnuts Value Chain Poster
Christone Nyondo, Flora J. Nankhuni, Poster at World Bank 22nd ICABR Conference, Washington DC, USA, June 13, 2018

Malawi Potato Value Chain Poster
J. Dzanja, J. Kanyamuka, Flora J. Nankhuni, Poster at World Bank 22nd ICABR Conference, Washington DC, USA, June 13, 2018

Gender-responsive Nutrition Policies – A Myth or a Possibility?
Elizabeth Mkandawire, and Sheryl Hendriks, Agrilinks, June 11, 2018

Challenges and Opportunities for Women in the Rwandan Coffee Sector
Maria Claudia Lopez, Kigali, Rwanda, June 1, 2018

From Aspiration to Transformation: Myanmar Agriculture and the Rural Economy
Duncan Boughton and Ben Belton, Yangon, Myanmar, June 1, 2018

May

Quality Assessment of Herbicides sold in Mali: Preliminary Laboratory Results
Steven Haggblade and Amadou Diarra, Comité Sahélien des Pesticides (CSP), Bamako, Mali, May 22, 2018

Research Toward Impact: What, Why, and How Innovation Labs are Designed with Impactful Outcomes in Mind
Mywish K. Maredia, Feed the Future Innovation Labs Regional Partners Meeting, Kampala, Uganda, May 21–25, 2018

Building Resilience through Policies, Institutions, and Capacity Development: Examples from Food Security Policy Innovation Lab
Mywish K. Maredia, Feed the Future Innovation Labs Regional Partners Meeting, Kampala, Uganda, May 21–25, 2018

Towards a Definition of Nutrition Research Priorities in Tanzania
David Tschirley, Tumaini Charles, Isaac Minde, and David Nyange (MSU/ASPIRES), with contributions from Joyce Kinabo and John Msuya (SUA), Nutrition Research Stakeholders’ Meeting, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 21, 2018

Land Prices Heading Skyward? An Analysis of Farmland Values in Tanzania
Podcast interview of Thomas Jayne and Ayala Wineman, Journal Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy (AEPP), May 10, 2018