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 • • 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) 1 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. 2 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 • • • • 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. 3