| Thomas Jayne’s professional career has been devoted to promoting effective policy responses to poverty and hunger in the developing work, Africa in particular. Jayne is Professor, International Development, in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and a member of the Core Faculty of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. He is involved in research, outreach, and capacity building programs in collaboration with African universities and government agencies, mainly focusing on food marketing and trade policies and their effects on sustainable and equitable development. Jayne’s secondary research focus has been on measuring the current and long-term effects of HIV/AIDS on African agriculture. Jayne sits on the editorial boards of two development journals, received a top paper award in 2004 by the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and co-authored a paper (with graduate student Jacob Ricker-Gilbert) awarded the T.W. Schultz Award at the 2009 International Association of Agricultural Economists Triennial Meetings. Jayne’s work has also 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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