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  Seminar on Myanmar’s Rural Transformation at MSU

  Published on May 16, 2019
  Dr. Ben Belton, will be discussing recent findings of large scale surveys implemented by FSP in Myanmar and the need for policies in order to support successful livelihood diversification and leverage greater value from existing agri-food value chains.

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  Medium-Scale Farms are on the Rise in Africa. Why This is Good News

  Published on December 16, 2018
  Medium-scale farmers are a growing population in Africa, and Thom Jayne and Milu Muyanga explain why that's good news in this article for the Conversation.

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  Land Pressure and African Agricultural Development

  Published on October 30, 2018
  An interview with Thomas Jayne, SciDevNet, 10/30/18

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  WEBINAR: Do Medium and Large-scale Farms Generate Income Spillovers for Rural Households?

  Published on October 30, 2018
  WEBINAR, Nov. 6, 2018, 10-11 AM - T. Jayne and J. Chamberlin: What's the impact of land acquisitions by foreign and local investors on smallholder households and rural communities?

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  The Transformation of Rural Africa

  Published on September 25, 2018
  Edited by T. S. Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin, and Rui Benfica, this collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas.

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  On Agrilinks: Creating an Enabling Environment for a Youth in Ag

  Published on August 7, 2018
  Recommendations to create an enabling environment to fully harness young people’s innovativeness and energies for inclusive agricultural transformation.

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  June Was Food Security Policy Month on Agrilinks

  Published on July 2, 2018
  See how we explained and shared our expertise on policy and food security in developing countries, with 7 blogs and 1 webinar.

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  Why the Influence of Agricultural Policy Research is Probably Greater than We Think

  Published on June 30, 2018
  We believe there are at least three categories of impactful policy-oriented research that development organizations should be promoting, even though it may be difficult to track the immediate impact of such research on a policy change.

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  Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition Policy Coherence

  Published on June 26, 2018
  Food security involves many sectors and partners requiring to make sure that policy is coherent across sectors. How then do governments ensure policy congruence?

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  Spinning the Kaleidoscope Model

  Published on June 22, 2018
  The complexity of the policy process can be analyzed with the Kaleidoscope Model that helps identify 16 variables at play during the design and implementation of a policy.

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  Are Medium-scale Farmers Driving Agricultural Transformation in Africa?

  Published on June 21, 2018
  The rapid change from small-scale farms and medium-scale one has many implications for the agricultural production of developing countries.

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  Building Resilience through Better Policies

  Published on June 15, 2018
  How is FSP addressing resilience through policies? The multi-pronged strategy is illustrated with examples of the Lab’s outputs, in Agrilinks, June 15, 2018

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  Guidance and Capacity Critical to National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (NAIP) ...

  Published on June 15, 2018
  Sheryl Hendriks, Agrilinks, June 15, 2018. Dramatic change has been happening in Africa for at least the past decade.

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  Gender-responsive Nutrition Policies – A Myth or a Possibility?

  Published on June 11, 2018
  Policymakers often incorrectly understand gender to mean addressing women’s issues. E. Mkandawire and S. Hendriks explain in an Agrilinks blog.

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  7 Unmistakable Signs of Agri-food Systems Transformation in Africa

  Published on April 10, 2018
  It's happening, and offers many investment opportunities. A seminar by Jayne & Kray, Ministry of Agriculture, Gvt of Tanzania, April 10, 2018

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  Youth for Growth, Transforming Economies through Agriculture

  Published on March 29, 2018
  A Report by Felix Kwame Yeboah, Principal Author (FSP C4a), sponsored by the Chicago Council for Global Affairs

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  FSP Researchers Lead Special JDS Issue

  Published on March 1, 2018
  FSP C4a (Upstream Global Research Policy) leader T. Jayne, and collaborators, are guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

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  A Global Food Security Symposium

  Published on December 3, 2017
  FSP’s downstream and upstream food system transformation team organized symposium: "Changing food systems and nutrition: Do we have the concepts and data to understand, track, and anticipate the links?"

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  The Future of Work: An Interagency Development Economics Seminar

  Published on November 28, 2017
  WEBINAR: Tom Reardon (C4b, Nigeria, Senegal) speaks to Chief Economists of USAID and MCC, Nov. 15.

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  Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distribution

  Published on November 13, 2017
  FSP C4a Thomas Jayne will present "The Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa" at the World Bank Group's webinar, Thursday, Nov. 16.