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

From Theory to Practice: Exploring Sustainable Solutions to Africa’s Developmental Challenges

Published on March 25, 2017
F. Kwame Yeboah and Thomas S. Jayne, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, March 25, 2017
Triangle of Linkages among Modernising Markets, Sprayer–traders, and Mango-farming Intensification in Indonesia

Published on March 20, 2017
Sara Ratna Qanti, Thomas Reardon & Arief Iswariyadi. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, March 2017
Intra-Rural Migration and Pathways to Greater Well-Being: Evidence from Tanzania

Published on March 19, 2017
Ayala Wineman and Thomas S. Jayne, Oxford, U.K., March 19-21, 2017
Toward an Integrated Approach to Sustainable Food System Productivity Growth

Published on March 16, 2017
T.S. Jayne, Nicholas Sitko, Sieglinde Snapp. Lusaka, Zambia, March 16–17, 2017
Megatrends Transforming Africa’s Agri-food Systems

Published on March 14, 2017
T.S. Jayne, with Milu Muyanga, Kwame Yeboah, Ayala Wineman, Lulama Traub, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, March 14, 2017