Agrifood System Transformation
FSG documents the rapid changes underway in agrifood systems, from farm to fork. Key drivers of this transformation are rapid growth in per capita incomes and urbanization. These drivers result in the rapid rise in demand for food through markets (as opposed to own production), and the rising demand for processed and perishable foods (as opposed to grains and staple root crops).
The combination of these forces is creating enormous agribusiness opportunities for local entrepreneurs, which promise to make important contributions to continued growth and to employment. Thus, a special focus of work is on the challenges to promoting the ability of small- and medium-size food processing firms to compete in local and regional markets.
Publications and Presentations
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Mega-trends and the Future of African Economics
Published on August 15, 2017
T.S. Jayne, Lulama Traub, Felix Yeboah, Milu Muyanga, Jordan Chamberlin, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, August 15, 2017 -
Food System Transformation and Market Evolutions: An Analysis of the Rise of Large-Scale Grain Trading in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published on August 1, 2017
IDWP 153. Nicholas J. Sitko, T.S. Jayne, William J. Burke, and Milu Muyanga. September 2017 -
Does the Inverse Farm Size and Productivity Relationship Hold Among Larger Farms?
Published on August 1, 2017
Godwin Debrah and Thomas Jayne, Chicago, Illinois, August 1, 2017 -
Is Small Still Beautiful? The Farm Size-Productivity Relationship Revisited
Published on July 30, 2017
Milu Muyanga & T.S. Jayne, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017 -
Factor Market Activity and the Inverse Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Tanzania
Published on July 30, 2017
Ayala Wineman and Thomas S. Jayne, Chicago, Illinois. July 30-August 1, 2017
People
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Ben Belton
Professor
beltonbe@msu.edu
+95 925-107-2892
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Duncan Boughton
Professor
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Thomas Jayne
MSU Foundation Professor emeritus
jayne@msu.edu
517-432-9802
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Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
MSU Foundation Professor
lliverp@msu.edu
517-432-5418
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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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David Tschirley
Professor
tschirle@msu.edu
517-355-0134
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Felix Kwame Yeboah
Assistant Professor
yeboahfe@msu.edu
517-353-4667