| Thomas Jayne is Professor, International Development, in the Department of Agricultural Economics and a member of the Core Faculty of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. He has recently returned to MSU after spending the past year at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, working on agricultural marketing and small farm productivity issues in coordination with African regional agricultural policy networks and the Rockefeller Foundation. Jayne sits on the editorial boards of two development journals, received a 2004 top paper award by the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and his work has 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
- Understanding the effects of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods and developing effective policy responses to premature adult mortality
- Poverty reduction strategies in Africa
- Improving the performance of agricultural input and output markets
Selected Publications
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): forthcoming.
Jayne, T.S., A. Chapoto, E. Byron, M. Ndiyoi, P. Hamazakaza, S. Kadiyala, and S. Gillespie. 2006. Community-Level Impacts of AIDS-Related Mortality. Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia, Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 28 (3): 440-457.
Jayne, T.S., B. Zulu, and J.J. Nijhoff. 2006. Stabilizing Food Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa. Food Policy, Vol. 31 (4): 328-341.
Jayne, T.S., M. Villarreal, P. Pingali, and G. Hemrich. 2005. HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector: Implications for Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa. Electronic Journal of Agricultural Development Economics, Vol. 2 (1).
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, Vol. 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, Vol. 53(3): 619-653.
Jayne, T.S., T. Yamano, and J. Nyoro. 2004. Interlinked Credit and Farm Intensification Evidence from Kenya. Agricultural Economics, Vol. 31(6): 209-218.
Yamano, T. and T.S. Jayne. 2004. Measuring the Impacts of Working Age Adult Mortality on Rural Households in Kenya. World Development, Vol. 32(1): 91-119.
Jayne, T.S., J. Strauss, and T. Yamano. 2002. "Food Aid Distribution in Ethiopia: Chronic Needs or Inertia?" Journal of Development Economics, Vol 68 (2): 247-288.
Funded Research Projects
- Southern Africa Maize Marketing and Trade Project, with the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
- Tegemeo Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis Project, Egerton University, Kenya
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