Food Security Group: Research, Policy Dialogue and Training Projects

Press Reports and Success Stories

Project Stories

Food Security Group at MSU/AEC

• MSU at Work in Africa: Promoting Food Security and Agricultural Development

FS III Core

• Timely Information Improves African Markets
• Understanding the Effects of HIV/AIDS on African Rural Households
• Regional Trade Reduces Food Aid Needs
• Fertilizer Market Innovations to Reduce African Rural Poverty
• AIDS toll in African heartland isn’t always what people think

  Mozambique

• Learning How to Improve African Markets
• In Mozambique, Market Information publishes its 500th Weekly Bulletin, a Cause for Celebration

  Mali

• Making Connections: USAID Brings Wireless Internet Connectivity to Katibougou. Bam! v 2 Issue 1, page 6. USAID/Mali Mission publication. 2006
• USAID/Mali Supports Development of Local-Level Food Security Plans
• President Amadou Toumani Touré Launches Food Security Website
• Fundamental Restructuring of Mali’s Approach to Food Security

  Zambia

• US to contribute over US$12 million to Agriculture policy research in Zambia. Lusaka Times. 10 February 2012.
• Lifting the Burden of Excessive Grain Levies for Farmers, Traders, and Millers in Zambia

Press Reports

• Food Security Research Project transformation takes root. Zambia Daily Mail. 02 May 2012.
• US to contribute over US$12 million to Agriculture policy research in Zambia. Lusaka Times. 10 February 2012.
• Why have farming subsidies failed to reduce poverty? Zambian Economist. 8 December 2011.
• Expert urges agric diversification. Zambia Times. November 2011.
• Experts debate path to ‘food security’. The Stanford Daily. 27 May 2011
• US Professor Advises Govt on Managing Bumper Harvests. The Post. 7 March 2011.
• FRA to Export More Maize. Zambia Daily Mail. 7 March 2011.
• A Broken Maize Marketing Policy. Zambian Economist. 22 February 2011
• State’s foray into maize marketing distorts pricing, hurts stakeholders. Steve Mbogo. Business Daily. November 1, 2010
• Maize storage: For food security or for profits? Charles Mpaka. Malawi News. 14 September 2010. (Local newspaper exposé of FSG report on maize marketing in Malawi).
• Zambia: US lecturer urges strengthening of food forecast systems in Africa. The Post, September 9, 2010
• MALAWI: All about the price of maize.IRIN News Service, February 18, 2009
• MALAWI/ZAMBIA: Food crisis looming in early 2009.IRIN News Service, December 23, 2008.
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC meal planning.IRIN News Service, August 22, 2008
• AFRICA: Political will needed to check hunger.IRIN News Service, February 21, 2008
• MALAWI: Subsidising agriculture is not enough.IRIN News Service, February 5, 2008
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: New research questions link between food crisis and AIDS. IRIN News Service, June 1, 2005.
• The state of smallholder farming.... Zambian Economist. Monday, 30 June 2008.
• WEST AFRICA: How can West Africa become more food-secure? IRIN. 28 May 2008. (PDF)
• AFRICA: Political will needed to check hunger. IRIN humanitarian news and analysis. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 21 February 2008. (Quotes work done by the Food Security Group.)
• Budgetary funding to agriculture reduces. Nicholas Mwale. Zambia Daily Mail from the week of 7-14 Feb 2008. (Quotes work done by the Food Security Group.)
• Even as Africa Hungers, Policy Slows Delivery of U.S. Food Aid. Celia W. Dugger. The New York Times. April 7, 2007. (Quotes work done by the Food Security Group.)
• Zambia Herald Business News rerport on FSRP presentation at the the Agricultural Sector Budget Analysis meeting, organized by the Agricultural Consultative Forum, Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka, February 7, 2006.
• New solutions needed to lessen HIV/AIDS impact on farming. Durban, 26 Apr 2005 (PLUSNEWS)
• New thinking needed on impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture. Johannesburg, 15 Mar 2005 (IRIN/PLUSNEWS)
• HIV/AIDS and the agricultural sector in eastern and southern Africa: anticipating the consequences. id21 Research Highlight: 15 June 2005
• Agricultural Commodity Levies: Who Benefits? Mwiinga, B., J. Shawa, T.S. Jayne and J. Shaffer. 2005. The Farmer, Vol. 8, No. 5: 11-12.
• DG's Petersberg Prize recognizes innovations by Food Security III's Mali Agricultural Market Information Support Team (PASIDMA). June 27, 2004.
• Mali's Agricultural Market Watch (or L'Observatoire du marché agricole au Mali) by Niama Dembélé. ICT Update. Issue 9. December 31, 2002.
• World Food Summit & Southern Africa a 12 June 02 radio discussion by E, Wongibe on RDW’s "Africa Report" program. (Note: 2MB .wav file)
• Listen to Mali Tech, a 20 March 02 report by Silvia Sansoni on Public Radio International's "The World" program. (Note 1.6MB file)
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• Read Silicon Mali, an article about the Mali Market Information project, from the 4 February 2002 issue of Forbes.
• Kenya’s Maize “Glut” Only Hurting Rich Farmers. Jayne, T.S., G. Nyambane, and G. Argwings-Kodhek. The EastAfrican Newspaper, January 18-24, 1999, p. 19.

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