Thomas Reardon
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University Distinguished Professor
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Email:
reardon@msu.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.I.A., Columbia University
Diplôme, Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Université de Nice
B.A., Claremont Men's College
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Related Work
Authored Articles
- AFRE Faculty Participate in African Development Bank Session on Agricultural Policy Responses to COVID-19, May 22, 2020
- The Quiet Revolution in Food Systems in Africa & Asia, October 17, 2018
- What Are Some Ways to Make the Case for your Work's Contributions to the Literature, October 13, 2018
- How to Get Published in a Peer Reviewed Journal, October 13, 2018
- What Are Some Ways to Apply the "Toggle Switch Idea", October 13, 2018
- The Art of Research Discovery and Writing Good Articles - VIDEO, October 12, 2018
- MSU FSG Members Strengthen Nigeria's University Capacity, August 30, 2018
- Why the Influence of Agricultural Policy Research is Probably Greater than We Think, June 30, 2018
- The Future of Work: An Interagency Development Economics Seminar, November 28, 2017
- FSP scientist T. Reardon on BBC World Service, September 25, 2017
- How Cities Reshape Food Systems, May 23, 2017
- Value Chain Concepts and Application Training at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, February 20, 2017
- Aquaculture Value Chain in Myanmar, January 5, 2017
- Chicken and Egg in Nigeria: A Dynamic Economic Subsector, January 3, 2017
Articles Featuring
- Reardon and Liverpool-Tasie presented on rapid rise of agrifood processing in Africa at FARA Africa Agribusiness Science Week,
- MSU Thomas Reardon featured in The Guardian,
- Tom Reardon Named an Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, August 10, 2021
- Tom Reardon Named University Distinguished Professor, July 27, 2021
- Reardon: Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems, June 8, 2021
- Global Food Prices Rise as Countries Stockpile Amid Worsening Pandemic, October 16, 2020
- Exploring the benefits of sustainable commoditization in the seafood industry, June 25, 2020
- New Report Uncovers the “Hidden Middle” of Africa’s Agricultural Economy, October 3, 2019
- Tom Reardon Named Extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria, January 16, 2019
- 25 Years of Change: Tom Reardon and Developing Agribusiness Supply Chains, December 5, 2018
- AFRE Extends Involvement in Nigeria Initiatives, September 12, 2018
- What Are "Food Systems?", February 6, 2018
- The "Hidden Middle," FSG's faculty T. Reardon's Top Cited Paper, January 29, 2018
Authored Documents
- Confluence of climate, violence, disease, and cost shocks: vulnerability of and impacts on Nigerian Maize Traders, September 6, 2023
- Market Channel and Heterogeneous Storage Behavior in Response to Multiple Risks: The Case of Nigerian Maize Traders, July 17, 2023
- Heterogeneous consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables in Nigeria: A panel data analysis, July 14, 2023
- Rapid Reconnaissance of the Value Chains for Tomato and Green Leafy Vegetables in Nigeria, May 22, 2023
- COVID-19 disruptions and pivoting in SMEs in the hidden middle of Kenya’s potato and fish value chains, April 19, 2023
- The evolution of symbiotic innovation, water, and agricultural supply chains, March 23, 2023
- Consumption of fruits and vegetables by types and sources across urban and rural Senegal, March 14, 2023
- How resilience innovations in food supply chains are revolutionizing logistics, wholesale trade, and farm services in developing countries., February 15, 2023
- Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle- Income Countries, December 1, 2022
- Do smaller chicken farms use more antibiotics? Evidence of antibiotic diffusion from Nigeria, September 26, 2022
- Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda., August 18, 2022
- Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: Evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, August 18, 2022
- Empirical Industrial Organization Economics to Analyze Developing Country Food Value Chains, June 21, 2022
- COVID-19's impacts on incomes and food consumption in urban and rural areas are surprisingly similar: Evidence from five African countries, June 1, 2022
- PIVOTING IN NIGERIA’S FISH AND POULTRY VALUE CHAINS IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 POLICIES AND IMPACTS, January 24, 2022
- The impact of COVID-19 and associated shocks on Agri Food SMEs along the poultry and fish value chain in Kaduna State, January 13, 2022
- The impact of COVID-19 and associated shocks on Agri Food SMEs along the poultry and fish value chains in Ebonyi State, January 13, 2022
- The impact of COVID-19 and associated shocks on Agri Food SMEs along the poultry and fish value chains in Kebbi State, Nigeria, January 12, 2022
- Hotspots of vulnerability and disruption in food value chains during COVID-19 in South Africa: industry- and firm-level “pivoting” in response, December 24, 2021
- Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing, October 13, 2021
- Consumption of processed food & food away from home in big cities, small towns, and rural areas of Tanzania, July 10, 2021
- Economic impacts of COVID-19 in urban and rural Africa: Surprising results from five countries, June 2, 2021
- The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation, April 1, 2021
- “Pivoting” by food industry firms to cope with COVID‐19 in developing regions: E‐commerce and “copivoting” delivery intermediaries, March 30, 2021
- E-commerce's fast-tracking diffusion and adaptation in developing countries, March 2, 2021
- The processed food revolution in African food systems and the double burden of malnutrition, March 1, 2021
- Post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia, February 25, 2021
- The processed food revolution in African food systems and the double burden of malnutrition, February 25, 2021
- Demand for Imported versus Domestic Fish in Nigeria, February 25, 2021
- Essential non-essentials” Five policy myths about African food value chains, with implications during COVID-19 and beyond, February 22, 2021
- Demand for Imported versus Domestic Fish in Nigeria, February 6, 2021
- Can the expansion of SMEs along Africa's food supply chains improve food and nutrition security?, January 1, 2021
- Chapter 4: Domestic Food Distribution Systems: Linking Farmers to Growing Urban Food Market. , November 12, 2020
- Chapter 2: Opportunities in Africa's Growing Urban Food Markets. Africa Agriculture Status Report. Feeding Africa’s Cities: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policies for Linking African Farmers with Growing Urban Food Markets, November 12, 2020
- Youth and adult agrifood system employment in developing regions: Rural (Peri-urban to hinterland) vs urban, November 6, 2020
- A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions, November 6, 2020
- Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban, September 14, 2020
- Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban, September 14, 2020
- Supermarket procurement and farmgate prices in India, June 24, 2020
- Sustainable commoditization of seafood, May 18, 2020
- COVID-19's Disruption of India's Transformed Food Supply Chains, May 2, 2020
- Post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia, February 29, 2020
- “Essential non‐essentials”: COVID‐19 policy missteps in Nigeria rooted in persistent myths about African food supply chain, February 28, 2020
- Youth Agrifood System Employment in Developing Countries: A Gender-Differentiated Spatial Approach, December 12, 2019
- Policy Brief on Synthesis Report III. Rural and Agrifood Systems in Transforming Economies in Africa and Asia, October 22, 2019
- Africa’s Changing Fertilizer Sector and the Role of the Private Sector, October 15, 2019
- Agricultural Trade in Africa in an era of Food System Transformation: Policy Implications, October 15, 2019
- Conclusions and Way Forward, October 15, 2019
- Avoid Hitting the Wall by Leveraging Investments of Midstream Heroes in African Food Value Chains, October 14, 2019
- Private Sector's Role in Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Overview, October 14, 2019
- FSP Synthesis Report III: Rural and Agrifood Systems in Transforming Economies in Africa and Asia, October 14, 2019
- The Quiet Revolution in Agri-food Distribution (Wholesale, Logistics, Retail) in Sub-Saharan Africa, October 14, 2019
- The Quiet Revolution and Emerging Modern Revolution in Agri-food Processing in Sub-Saharan Africa, October 14, 2019
- Trading Promises for Results: What Global Integration Can Do for Latin America and the Caribbean, September 23, 2019
- De promesas a resultados en el comercio internacional: Lo que la integración global puede hacer por América Latina y el Caribe, September 23, 2019
- Structural transformation and economic development: insights from the agri-food value chain revolution, August 21, 2019
- Do the Poor Pay More for Food? Evidence from Tanzania, June 25, 2019
- A Hedonic Price Analysis of Processed Food Attributes in Tanzania, June 25, 2019
- Rural development, market linkages and the dairy supply chains in Colombia, June 25, 2019
- Value-chain transformation, June 1, 2019
- Agricultural markets in Ethiopia, May 28, 2019
- IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 43 Youth agrifood system employment in developing countries: a gender-differentiated spatial approach, May 15, 2019
- The energy implication of China’s food system transformation, April 15, 2019
- Project Improving market integration for high value fruit and vegetable production systems in Indonesia, March 9, 2019
- Innovation-induced food supply chain design, February 1, 2019
- Value-chain clusters and aquaculture innovation in Bangladesh, February 1, 2019
- Links among innovation, food system transformation, and technology adoption, with implications for food policy: Overview of a special issue, February 1, 2019
- Rapid Transformations of Asian Food Systems - VIDEO, November 16, 2018
- The Rapid Transformation of the Fish Value Chain in Nigeria: Evidence from Kebbi State, October 30, 2018
- The Art of Research Discovery and Writing Good Articles, October 13, 2018
- An economic model of the evolution of food retail and supply chains from traditional shops to supermarkets to e-commerce, October 1, 2018
- Mechanization Outsourcing Services in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, September 24, 2018
- The Rapid Transformation of the Fish Value Chain in Nigeria: Evidence from Kebbi State, September 16, 2018
- The Rapid Transformation of the Fish Value Chain in Nigeria: Evidence From Niger State, September 9, 2018
- Mechanization Outsourcing Services in Myanmar's Dry Zone, September 6, 2018
- Obesity and the food system transformation in Latin America, August 31, 2018
- Inclusiveness, technology and profitability in supermarkets: SUR Model results from semi-arid region, August 7, 2018
- The “quiet revolution” in the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh, August 1, 2018
- Shrimp aquaculture technology change in Indonesia: Are small farmers included?, August 1, 2018
- Quiet Revolutions in Aquaculture & Poultry Value Chains in Africa & Asia, July 28, 2018
- Transformative Innovation in Food Value Chains in Africa & Asia, July 28, 2018
- Rapid Dual Transformation of the “Hidden Middle” of African & Asian Food Systems, June 26, 2018
- Food Systems Transformation in West Africa: Implications for Jobs and Policy, June 18, 2018
- Dual Disruptive Transformation of African & Asian Food Systems, June 13, 2018
- Demand for Imported-Frozen versus Domestic-Traditionally Processed Fish in Africa: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria, February 14, 2018
- Rapid transformation in Asian & African food markets: Implications for US exporters, February 2, 2018
- Climate smart food supply chains in developing countries in an era of rapid dual change in agrifood systems and the climate, January 31, 2018
- Agrifood Foreign Direct Investment and Waves of Globalization of Emerging Markets: Less for US Firms, January 20, 2018
- The Transformation of Value Chains in Africa: Evidence from the First Large Survey of Maize Traders, January 16, 2018
- The Transformation of Value Chains in Africa: Evidence from the First Large Survey of Maize Traders in Nigeria, January 12, 2018
- Food System Transformation & SDGs1&2: Implications for General & Differentiated Policies, January 11, 2018
- Rapid Transformation of Food Systems in Developing Regions: Highlighting the Role of Agricultural…, January 1, 2018
- The Transformation of Value Chains in Africa: Evidence from the First Large Survey of Maize Traders, January 1, 2018
- The transformation of value chains in Africa: Evidence from the first large survey of maize traders in Nigeria, December 12, 2017
- The Transformation of Value Chains in Africa: Evidence from the First Large Survey of Maize Traders in Nigeria, December 4, 2017
- The Hidden Revolution in the Midstream of Africa’s Food Systems - Links to Food Safety and Nutri, December 3, 2017
- Links among innovation, food system transformation, and technology adoption, with implications for food policy: Overview of a Special Issue, October 27, 2017
- Financing Agricultural Inputs in Africa: Own Cash or Credit?, October 25, 2017
- Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate, October 21, 2017
- Growth and transformation of food systems in Africa: evidence from the poultry value chain in Nigeria, October 1, 2017
- Growth and Transformation of Chicken and Eggs Value Chains in Nigeria, September 2, 2017
- Drivers of Indivisible Technology Channel Access and Service Provision among Small and Medium Sized Food Processing Firms in Tanzania, July 3, 2017
- Climate Change and the Poultry Value Chain in Nigeria: Issues, Emerging Evidence, and Hypothesis, July 2, 2017
- The rapid diffusion of herbicides in farming in India: Patterns, determinants, and effects on labor productivity, July 1, 2017
- The herbicide revolution in developing countries: Patterns, causes, and implications, July 1, 2017
- The Emerging Quiet Revolution in Myanmar’s Aquaculture Chain, June 21, 2017
- The “Quiet Revolution” in the Aquaculture Value Chain in Bangladesh, June 15, 2017
- Triangle of Linkages among Modernising Markets, Sprayer-traders, and Mango-farming Intensification in Indonesia, May 4, 2017
- Agrifood System Transformation in the Midstream and Downstream: Research Findings, Implied Risks, and Implications for Policy and Value Chain Program Design, April 4, 2017
- Agrifood System Transformation in the Midstream and Downstream: Research Findings, Implied Risks, and Implications for Policy and Value Chain Program Design, April 4, 2017
- Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture, April 1, 2017
- Triangle of Linkages among Modernising Markets, Sprayer–traders, and Mango-farming Intensification in Indonesia, March 20, 2017
- Climate change and the poultry value chain in Nigeria: issues, emerging evidence, and hypotheses, March 2, 2017
- Climate Change and the Poultry Value Chain in Nigeria: Issues, Emerging Evidence, and Hypotheses, March 1, 2017
- Climate Change and the Poultry Value Chain in Nigeria: Issues, Emerging Evidence, and Hypotheses, March 1, 2017
- FDI Restrictions in the Indonesian Horticulture Sector: Implications of Horticulture Law No. 13, 2010, February 28, 2017
- How Cities Reshape Food Systems, February 28, 2017
- Agrifood Value Chains: Research Methods, February 21, 2017
- Agrifood Value Chains: Concepts, Axes of Transformation, Illustrations, February 20, 2017
- Innovatively and Sustainably Building Capacity across Generations, February 4, 2017
- Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Project Links Renowned International Experts with Nigerian Scholars, February 3, 2017
- Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 3, 2017
- Africa’s Unfolding Diet Transformation and Farm Employment: Evidence from Tanzania, February 3, 2017
- Africa’s Unfolding Diet Transformation and Farm Employment: Evidence From Tanzania, February 2, 2017
- Agricultural input credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: Telling myth from facts, February 1, 2017
- Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, January 31, 2017
- Smallholder farmer participation in a modernizing food system: insights from the dairy value chain in Zambia, January 28, 2017
- Disruptive innovations in food value chains and small farmers in India, January 25, 2017
- Agricultural value chains: How cities reshape food systems, January 24, 2017
- Agricultural Input Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa, January 21, 2017
- Growth & Transformation of Food Systems in Africa: Evidence from the Poultry Value Chain in Nigeria, January 1, 2017
- Contrary to Conventional Wisdom, Smuggled Chicken Imports are not Holding Back Rapid Development of the Chicken Value Chain in Nigeria, November 11, 2016
- Contrary to Conventional Wisdom, Smuggled Chicken Imports are not Holding Back Rapid Development of the Chicken Value Chain in Nigeria, November 1, 2016
- Agricultural Input Credit in sub-Saharan Africa: Telling Myth from Facts, October 1, 2016
- Supply chain design and adoption of indivisible technology, October 1, 2016
- Economics of agricultural supply chain design: A portfolio selection approach, October 1, 2016
- Growth And Transformation Of Chicken & Eggs Value Chains in Nigeria, September 9, 2016
- Growth and Transformation of Chicken & Eggs Value Chains in Nigeria, September 2, 2016
- Cities and the future of agriculture and food security: A policy and programmatic roundtable, August 1, 2016
- Impact on Employment and Migration of Structural and Rural Transformation, June 2, 2016
- Impacts of the Supermarket Revolution and the Policy and Strategic Responses, May 13, 2016
- Central America, April 8, 2016
- 2nd Agrifood System Transformation in East And Southern Africa: Implications for Tanzania, February 24, 2016
- A Quiet Revolution Emerging in the Fish-farming Value Chain in Myanmar, January 28, 2016
- Value Chain Transformation in Asia: Emergence of a Quiet Revolution, January 21, 2016
- Agrifood Value Chains: Concepts, Axes of Transformation, Research Methods, January 21, 2016
- Transformation of the food system in Nigeria and female participation in the Non-Farm Economy (NFE), January 16, 2016
- Impact on employment and migration of structural and rural transformation, January 12, 2016
- Wastage in food value chains in developing countries: evidence from the potato sector in Asia, January 12, 2016
- Food Security in a Food Abundant World, January 10, 2016
- Cities and the Future of Agriculture and Food Security: A Policy and Programmatic Roundtable, January 1, 2016
- AUDIO: Prospects for Agricultural Value Chains in Myanmar, January 1, 2016
- Energy Costs in the Transforming Agrifood Value Chains of Asia, January 1, 2016
- Aquaculture in transition: value chain transformation, fish and food security in Myanmar, December 12, 2015
- Aquaculture in Transition: Value Chain Transformation, Fish and Food Security in Myanmar, December 2, 2015
- Modernizing wholesalers and guava farmers in Mexico, November 25, 2015
- Africa's unfolding diet transformation: implications for agrifood system employment, November 16, 2015
- A Quiet Revolution Emerging in the Fish-farming Value Chain in Myanmar: Implication for National Food Security, November 11, 2015
- A Quiet Revolution Emerging in the Fish-farming Value Chain in Myanmar: Implication for National Food Security, November 1, 2015
- States of transformation in food processing and marketing : Results of an initial inventory of processed food products in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanza, September 9, 2015
- Stages of Transformation in Food Processing and Marketing, September 1, 2015
- Agribusiness in Africa: Prospects and Challenges for Contributing to Industrialization and Economic, September 1, 2015
- The Rise of Processed Foods in Africa: Evidence from Three Cities in Tanzania, July 25, 2015
- 1st Agrifood System Transformation in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Tanzania, July 15, 2015
- The Rise of a Middle Class in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Food System Transformation, July 15, 2015
- Local Response to the Rapid Rise in Demand for Processed and Perishable Foods: Results of Inventory of Processed Food Products in Dar es Salaam, May 1, 2015
- Africa’s Unfolding Diet Transformation: Implications for Agrifood System Employment, January 1, 2015
- Rapid Transformation of Agrifood Value Chains in Asia, August 28, 2014
- Webinar | Transformation of Food Supply Chains: What Every Agricultural Banker Should Know, July 9, 2014
- The Quiet Revolution in Asia’s Rice Value Chains, April 1, 2014
- AUDIO: Prospects for Agricultural Value Chains in Myanmar, March 21, 2014
- Prospects for Agricultural Value Chains in Myanmar, March 21, 2014
- Incentives for Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Empirical Evidence on Fertilizer Response and Profitability, October 31, 1998
- Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference, October 31, 1997
- Confronting the Silent Challenge of Hunger: A Conference Synthesis, December 1, 1995
- Chapter 4 in IFPRI. (2023) Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses,
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