Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Food Security Group

• Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions. T.S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Kwame Yeboah, Jordan Chamberlin, Ayala Wineman, Ward Anseeuw, Antony Chapoto, and Nicholas Sitko. University of Western Cape / PLAAS. Cape Town, South Africa. December 7, 2017

• Tegemeo Conference 2017 on "Transforming Agriculture for Inclusive Growth and sustainable livelihoods." Nairobi, Kenya. December 5, 2017
      ◦ Pulled or pushed out? Causes and consequences of youth migration from densely populated areas of rural Kenya. Milu Muyanga, Dennis Otieno & T. S. Jayne
      ◦ Can smallholders farm themselves out of smallholder farming and poverty? Milu Muyanga & T. S. Jayne

• The Rise of Medium - Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions. Milu Muyanga, T. S. Jayne, Felix Kwame Yeboah, Antony Chapoto, Nicholas Sitko. Global Food Security Conference Symposium on "Changing food systems and nutrition: do we have the concepts and data to understand, track, and anticipate the links? " Cape Town, South Africa. December 3, 2017

• Toward a Holistic Sustainable Intensification Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa. T.S. Jayne. Panelist remarks Invited session on "Sustainable Intensification in Africa: How to make it happen" Global Food Security Conference. Cape Town, South Africa. 3 December 2017

• Patterns, Drivers and Impacts of Rural-Rural Migration in Zambia. Jordan Chamberlin, Nicholas J. Sitko, T. S. Jayne. FAO Technical Workshop on Drivers and Impacts of Migration & Labor Mobility.Rome, Italy. December 1, 2017

• Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Role for Parliamentarians. T.S. Jayne and Milu Muyanga. Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Role for Parliamentarians. Keynote Address at 4th Annual RENAPRI Stakeholder Conference. Cape Town, South Africa. November 30, 2017

• Intersection of Youth Livelihoods and Agriculture in Africa. F. Kwame Yeboah and Thomas S. Jayne. Keynote Presentation at the 4th Annual ReNAPRI Stakeholders Conference. Cape Town, South Africa. November  30, 2017

• Is Small Still Beautiful? The Farm Size-Productivity Relationship Revisited. Milu Muyanga & T.S. Jayne. International Conference on Ecosystem Resilience and Agricultural Productivity. Speke Resort Munyonyo. Kampala, Uganda. November 23, 2017

• Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions. T.S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Kwame Yeboah, Jordan Chamberlin, Ayala Wineman, Ward Anseeuw, Antony Chapoto, and Nicholas Sitko. World Bank, Washington, DC., November 16, 2017

• Causes, consequences of changing farm size distributions in Africa, and implications on youth employment. Milu Muyanga, T.S. Jayne, A. Chapoto, N. Sitko, C. Nkonde, K. Yeboah, J. Chamberlin, A. Wineman, W. Anseeuw, D. Godwin. Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) Brown Bag, Lusaka, Zambia. October 19, 2017

• Land Policies and Land Distribution Affect Smallholder Livelihoods and Agricultural Transformation. Jayne briefed senior Gates Foundation representatives on the ways in which land policies and land distribution affect smallholder livelihoods and agricultural transformation, Gates Foundation Headquarters, Seattle. October 10, 2017

• Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions. Milu Muyanga, T.S. Jayne, Kwame Yeboah, Jordan Chamberlin, Ayala Wineman, Ward Anseeuw, Antony Chapoto, Nicholas Sitko. Global Donor Working Group on Land side on "The Impact of Increasing Capital Flows to Rural Areas: Experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa" during the 44 Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Rome, Italy. October 9, 2017

• Agriculture Transformation in Africa and Prospects for the Grain Sector: A Case for Tanzania. David Nyange and Milu Muyanga. Eastern Africa Grain Council Secretariat 7th African Grain Trade Summit. Dar es Salaam. Tanzania. October 3–7, 2017