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• Oct 16

  MILES Speaker

  October 16, 2020 10 - 11 am EST Online via Zoom

  Join us for this hour presentation from Dr. Robin Kimmerer on what integration of indigenous philosophy and scientific tools on behalf of land culture looks like.

• Harnessing the Power of Innovation to Unlock Agribusiness for African Smallholders

  Published on September 6, 2018
  Thomas Jayne, African Green Revolution Forum plenary session, September 6, 2018, Kigali, Rwanda.

• Agriculture Transformation in Africa and Prospects for the Grain Sector: A Case for Tanzania

  Published on October 3, 2017
  David Nyange, Milu Muyanga, David Tschirley, Thomas S. Jayne

• System-Wide Approaches to Promote Sustainable Agri-Food System Productivity Growth in Africa

  Published on June 1, 2017
  Nicholas J. Sitko and Thomas Jayne, June 2017. Based on the Vuna report “Integrating climate- and market-smartness into strategies for sustainable productivity growth of African agri-food systems”

• Land Dynamics and Future Trajectories of Structural Transformation in Africa

  Published on August 1, 2015
  Thomas S. Jayne. 2014. Land Dynamics and Future Trajectories of Structural Transformation in Africa. Simon Brand Keynote Address, Agrekon, 53(3), 1-15.

• 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.

• Does Farm Structure Matter? The Effects of Farmland Distribution Patterns on Rural Household Incomes in Tanzania - RP 77

  Published on October 8, 2017
  Jordan Chamberlin and T. S. Jayne, 2017. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 77.

• Africa’s Changing Farmland Ownership and Use: Considering the Policy Implications

  Published on April 20, 2016
  Thomas Jayne, Ministry of Lands Policy Conference, Lilongwe, Malawi, April 20, 2016

• Land Policies and Land Distribution Affect Smallholder Livelihoods and Agricultural Transformation

  Published on October 10, 2017
  Thomas Jayne, Seattle, WA, October 10, 2017

• Food System Transformation and the Smallholder Farmer in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

  Published on December 6, 2017
  David Tschirley, Regional gathering of WFP heads of country programs, Nairobi, Kenya, December 6, 2017

• Webinar Recording: The Rise of Medium-scale Farms in Africa

  Published on May 23, 2017
  Thomas Jayne, CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), May 23, 2017

• Land and Opportunity Access: Migration Drivers for Youth and Young Adults in Rural Zambia

  Published on January 7, 2020
  Megan Bellinger, Milu Muyanga, David Mather, Henry Machina, and Nicole M. Mason, 2019. Land and Opportunity Access: Migration Drivers for Youth and Young Adults in Rural Zambia. FSP Policy Brief 112.

• Intrahousehold Productivity Differentials and Land Quality in the Sudanian Savanna of Mali

  Published on November 6, 2017
  Melinda Smale, Veronique Theriault, Hamza Haider, and Alpha Kergna. 2017. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Brief 54.

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  The Rise of Medium-size Farms: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

  Published on January 5, 2017
  The rapid rise of medium-scale holdings in most cases reflects increased interest in land by urban-based professionals or influential rural people associated with rapidly rising urban population growth and demand for food in Africa.

• Myanmar's Rural Transformation: Evidence from the Food Security Policy Project

  Published on May 23, 2019
  Ben Belton, Myanmar's Rural Transformation: Evidence from the Food Security Policy Project, Food Security Policy Project, Michigan State University, May 23, 2019

• Lessons for Venezuela from Chile's Agri-food Sector Reform

  Published on August 20, 2020
  Carlos Furche, Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, David Ortega, Luis Flores, David Tschirley. 2020 Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Brief 121.

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  Initial Steps in Implementation of the Malawi Land Laws: Implications for Commercial Agriculture

  Published on May 10, 2017
  SYMPOSIUM - May 10, 2017, Lilongwe, Malawi. This event provided a dialogue on the newly adopted Land Laws and what they entail for agriculture development in Malawi.

• What Drives Adoption of Soil Fertility Management Practices among Smallholder Maize Growers?

  Published on December 14, 2016
  Nicole M. Mason, Jongwoo Kim, Stephen Morgan, and David Olson, Presentation made at “Indicators for the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Workshop Center for Global Change & Earth Observation," Michigan State University, December 14, 2016

• Beyond the "Inverse Relationship": Area Mismeasurement Affects Actual Productivity, Not Just How We Understand It

  Published on December 12, 2019
  William J. Burke, Stephen Morgan, Thelma Namonje, Milu Muyanga, and Nicole M. Mason, 2019. Beyond the "Inverse Relationship": Area Mismeasurement Affects Actual Productivity, Not Just How We Understand It, FSP Research Paper 159.

• The Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Tanzania: Preliminary Findings

  Published on February 1, 2017
  Ayala Wineman & Thomas S. Jayne, Washington, D.C., February 1-2, 2017