Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa - GISAIA
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Thomas Jayne
MSU Foundation Professor emeritus
jayne@msu.edu
517-432-9802
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Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
MSU Foundation Professor
lliverp@msu.edu
517-432-5418
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Steve Longabaugh
Specialist International Development
longabau@msu.edu
517-432-0018
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David Mather
Assistant Professor
matherda@msu.edu
517-449-9694
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Isaac Joseph Minde
Professor
mindeisa@msu.edu
+25 523-260-0742
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Milu Muyanga
Associate Professor
muyangam@msu.edu
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David Nyange
Associate Professor
nyange@msu.edu
+255-754-272-573
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Melinda Smale
Professor Emeritus
msmale@msu.edu
703-231-8492
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Oyinkan Chukuka Tasie
Assistant Professor
otasie@msu.edu
517-355-0131
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Véronique Thériault
Associate Professor
theria13@msu.edu
517-353-7856
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Ayala Wineman
Assistant Professor
wineman1@msu.edu
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Felix Kwame Yeboah
Assistant Professor
yeboahfe@msu.edu
517-353-4667
Photo from Launch workshop for the GISAIA Program in Lagos, Nigeria. 2012
Overview
This grant to MSU/AFRE from the Gates Foundation Global Development Program is intended to improve the incomes and food security status of African farmers and consumers through policies to improve the profitability of cereal crop intensification and contribute to sustainable agricultural productivity growth in Africa. Over the period 2013-2017, a team of AFRE faculty will work with 10 African universities, institutes and government ministries in seven countries Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Malawi, Burkina Faso, and Mali to implement effective policy and programmatic strategies that help African farmers become more productive and food-secure. The team also will build the capacity of national policy institutes to guide and support their countries agriculture ministries and eventually accept and manage international grants.
Expected Outcomes
Five main outcomes/impacts from the proposed grant are anticipated:
- Policy impact leading to improved food security and living standards;
- Capacity building and analytical skill development of the Ministries of Agriculture in the region;
- Improved analytical capacity of the national research institutes forming this consortium;
- Public goods research findings that will be utilized more broadly both researchers and practitioners in other countries, which may indirectly contribute to improved policy impacts elsewhere;
- A regional network of nationally recognized policy institutes that can accept and manage grant funds and sub-grant to the national institutes for regionally coordinated grants in the future.
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