Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.S., Michigan State University
B.A., Bucknell University
Professor, International Development
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Michigan State University
446 W. Circle Dr., Rm 317C
Justin S Morrill Hall of Agriculture
East Lansing, MI 48824-1039
517 432 9802, jayne@msu.edu
Thomas Jayne’s career has been devoted to working with African colleagues to promote
effective policy responses to poverty in Africa. Jayne is Professor in the Department of
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, is Adjunct
Professor at the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute in Lusaka, Zambia, and is a
Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists. His research focuses on
agricultural productivity and markets, land use dynamics, and how agricultural policies and
programs can contribute to sustainable and equitable development. Jayne sits on the
editorial boards of two professional journals, received a top paper award in 2004 by the
International Association of Agricultural Economists, co-authored a paper awarded the T.W.
Schultz Award at the 2009 International Association of Agricultural Economists Triennial
Meetings, received the 2009 Outstanding Article Award in Agricultural Economics, and coauthored a paper awarded First Prize at the 2010 tri-annual meetings of the African
Association of Agricultural Economists. Jayne also received a Research Excellence Award in
2011 from MSU’s Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department. Jayne currently
serves on the advisory boards of several initiatives dedicated to building institutional and
analytical capacity in sub-Saharan Africa, including the Global Development Network’s
Global Research Capacity Building Program, and the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy
Research Institutes in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Click here for a list of theses and dissertations written by Dr. Jayne’s advisees.
Current Research Interests
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Farm productivity growth and agricultural input and output markets (guest editing a
special issue of Agricultural Economics on “Input Subsidy Programs in Sub-Saharan
Africa” with Shahidur Rashid, November 2013 issue)
Land use dynamics, population, and agricultural intensification (guest editing a
special issue of Food Policy on “Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture and their
Implications for Rural Development Strategies“ with Derek Headey and Jordan
Chamberlin, scheduled for publication early 2014).
Selected Publications (since 2010)
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Jin, S. and T.S. Jayne 2013. Land Rental Markets in Kenya: Implications for Efficiency, Equity,
Household Income, and Poverty. Land Economics, 89 (2): 246–271.
Ricker-Gilbert, J., T.S. Jayne, and G. Shively. 2013. Addressing the Wicked Problem of Input
Subsidy Programs in Africa, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 35(2).
Jayne, T.S. and M. Muyanga. 2012. Land constraints in Kenya’s densely populated rural
areas: implications for food policy and institutional reform. Food Security, downloadable at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r65716260224g5g2/fulltext.pdf
T.S. Jayne. 2012. Managing food price instability in East and Southern Africa, Global Food
Security, 1 (2): 143–149. Downloadable
at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191241200017X
Chamberlin, J. and T.S. Jayne 2013. Unpacking the Meaning of ‘Market Access’: Evidence
from Rural Kenya. World Development 41 (January): 245–264.
Sitko, N. and T.S. Jayne. 2012. Why are African commodity exchanges languishing? A case
study of the Zambian Agricultural Commodity Exchange. Food Policy, 37 (2012): 275–282.
Myers, R. and T.S. Jayne. 2012. Multiple-regime spatial price transmission with an
application to maize markets in southern Africa. American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
94(1, February): 174-188.
Mason, N., T.S. Jayne, A. Chapoto, and C. Donovan. 2011. Putting the 2007/2008 global food
crisis in longer-term perspective: Trends in staple food affordability in urban Zambia and
Kenya. Food Policy, 36(3): 350-367.
Chapoto, A., T.S. Jayne, and N. Mason. 2011. Widows’ Land Security in the Era of
HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia, Economic Development and Cultural
Change, 59(3): 511-547.
Mghenyi, E., R. Myers, and T. Jayne. 2011. The effects of a large discrete maize price
increase on the distribution of household welfare and poverty in rural Kenya. Agricultural
Economics, 42(3): 343-356.
Ricker-Gilbert, J., T.S. Jayne, and E. Chirwa. 2011. Subsidies and Crowding Out: A DoubleHurdle Model of Fertilizer Demand in Malawi. American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
93(1, February): 26-42.
Abbink, K., T.S. Jayne, and L. Moller. 2011. The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing
Policy: An Experimental Case Study of Zambia, Journal of Development Studies, 47(2): 207230.
Govereh, J., P. Chilonda, E. Malawo, T. Jayne, and L. Rugube. 2011. Methodological
Guidelines for tracking public expenditure with illustrations from Zambia, Journal of
Development and Agricultural Economics, 3(3 March): 132-143.
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Jayne, T.S., D. Mather, and E. Mghenyi. 2010. Principal Challenges Confronting Smallholder
Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Development, 38(10): 1384-1398
Tembo, G., A. Chapoto, T.S. Jayne, M. Weber. 2010. Fostering Food Market Development in
Zambia. Zambia Social Science Journal, 1(1): 39-60.
Mason, N., T.S. Jayne, A. Chapoto, and R. Myers. 2010. A Test of the New Variant Famine
Hypothesis: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia, World Development, 38(3): 356-368.
Tschirley, D., and T.S. Jayne. 2010. Exploring the Logic of Southern Africa’s Food Crises,
World Development, 38(1): 76-87.
Funded Research Projects
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Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa (GISAIA),
$7.8 million, 2013-2017, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Tegemeo Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis Project, $1.9 million, 20122016, in partnership with Egerton University, Kenya, funded by USAID/Kenya.
Food Security Research Project/Zambia, in partnership with the Indaba Agricultural
Policy Research Institute, $12.5 million, 2010-2015, funded by USAID/Zambia.
Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Markets in Africa (GISAMA), $4.5
million, 2008-2012, in partnership with the Common Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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