| Thomas Jayne’s professional career has been devoted to working with African colleagues to improve our understanding of how to effectively respond to poverty and hunger in Africa. Jayne is Professor, International Development, in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. He is also a member of the Core Faculty of the African Studies Center at MSU. He conducts research and capacity building activities on food marketing and policy issues in collaboration with African universities and government agencies. He has recently returned to MSU after spending 2006/07 at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, where he participated in an initiative designed to strengthen grain markets in Africa. Jayne sits on the editorial boards of two development journals, received a 2004 top paper award by the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and his work has been recognized at the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, the Secretariat of Global Agricultural Science Policy for the Twenty-First Century, and the 1999 World Food Prize Conference.
Professional Interests
- Poverty reduction strategies in Africa
- Farm productivity growth and agricultural input and output markets
- Understanding the effects of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods and developing effective policy responses to premature adult mortality
Selected Publications
Jayne, T.S., R.J. Myers, and J. Nyoro. 2008. The Effects of Government Maize Marketing Policies on Maize Prices in Kenya. Agricultural Economics, 38(3): 313–325.
Chapoto, A. and T.S. Jayne. 2008. Impact of AIDS-Related Deaths on Farm Households’ Welfare in Zambia. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 56(2): 327-374.
Jayne, T.S., B. Zulu, and J.J. Nijhoff. 2006. Stabilizing Food Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa. Food Policy, 31(4): 328-341.
Mather, D., C. Donovan, T.S. Jayne, and M. Weber. 2005. Using Empirical Information in the Era of HIV/AIDS to Inform Mitigation and Rural Development Strategies: Selected Results from African Country Studies. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(5): 1289-1297.
Yamano, T. and T.S. Jayne. 2005. Working Age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(3): 619-653.
Jayne, T.S., J. Strauss, and T. Yamano. 2002. "Food Aid Distribution in Ethiopia: Chronic Needs or Inertia?" Journal of Development Economics, 68(2): 247-288.
Funded Research Projects
- Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Markets in Africa (GISAMA), in partnership with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- African Agricultural Markets Project, in partnership with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, funded by the World Bank
- Tegemeo Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis Project, in partnership[ with Egerton University, Kenya, funded by USAID/Kenya
- Food Security Research Project, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and the Agricultural Consultative Forum, funded by the Swedish International Development Agency and USAID/Zambia.
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