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QUARTERLY UPDATE

April 30, 2012

Food Security Group

Department of Agricultural, Food, Resource Economics

Michigan State University

Since our last quarterly update, these items have been added to our web site:

International Development Working Papers

• Income and Poverty Impacts of USAID-Funded Programs to Promote Maize, Horticulture, and Dairy Enterprises in Kenya, 2004-2010. Melinda Smale, Mary K. Mathenge, Thomas S. Jayne, Eduardo Magalhaes, John Olwande, Lilian Kirimi, Mercy Kamau, and James Githuku. IDWP 122. February 2012.
• Staple Food Market Sheds in West Africa. Steven Haggblade, Steven Longabaugh, Duncan Boughton, Nango Dembelé, Boubacar Diallo, John Staatz, and David Tschirley.   IDWP 121. February 2012.
• Cassava Commercialization in Mozambique. Cynthia Donovan, Steven Haggblade, Venâncio Alexandre Salegua, Constantino Cuambe, João Mudema, and Alda Tomo.  IDWP 120. December 2011.

Awards Received by FSG Faculty and Students

• Milu Muyanga was the first prize winner of the Global Development Network’s 2007 medal on research in the thematic area of Household Exposure to Risk and Effects on Poverty.
• Megan Sheahan won Best M.S. Thesis of 2011 for “Analysis of Fertilizer Profitability and Use in Kenya” (thesis supervisor and major prof: T. Jayne).

Cross-Cutting Outreach Contributions

• Capacity Building for Food Policy Analysis Lessons: Learned from the Food Security Cooperative Agreement. Duncan Boughton and Eric Crawford. Presentation at USAID. Washington, D.C. March 13, 2012. (Recordings of March 13 seminar)
• T. Jayne. Discussant for the session on Promoting Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Presented at the Global Development Interim Workshop on Supporting Policy Research to Inform Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, 27-28 February, 2012, Paris, France.
• Value Chain Investments and Improved Food Security Outcomes: Natural Partners or Arranged Marriage? Duncan Boughton. USAID Value Chain Learning Event. Washington, DC. February 7 – 8, 2012.

Input Use, Input Market Development and Natural Resource Management

• Input Subsidies, Poverty and Production: How policy could do more. W.J. Burke, T.S. Jayne, J.R. Black and N.J. Sitko. Presentation to Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Directors, Mulungushi House, Lusaka, Zambia, March 15th, 2012.
• Seeing the forest for the fuel and food: Rural poverty and forest sustainability in Zambia. Robert B. Richardson. International Resources Industries and Sustainability Centre (IRIS) Seminar. University of Calgary. 29 February 2012.

Land Constraints and Their Implications for Agricultural Development Strategies in Africa

• Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Toward the Identification of Appropriate Rural Development Strategies. T.S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Jordan Chamberlin. Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series, Stanford Center for Food Security and the Environment. Palo Alto, January 12, 2012.

Mali Food Security Initiative:  Phase II

Research Reports

• Etude nationale sur les bassins de production des spéculations céréales au Mali . Décembre 2011.

Mozambique Productivity and Policy

Project Overview

• Annual Narrative Reports : 2010/11
• Cumulative Project Output Reports: 2010/11

Policy Presentations

• Inventário de Investimentos em Agricultura de Conservação em Moçambique. Cynthia Donovan, Bordalo Mouzinho. Apresentação no Workshop “O Futuro da Agricultura de Conservação em Moçambique”. IIAM. 28 Fevereiro, 2012.
• MSU in Agriculture in Mozambique. Presented by Cynthia Donovan for the MSU team. Platform for Agricultural Research and Innovation in Mozambique. Annual Meeting. IIAM, Maputo. 22 November 2011.
• A Modernização do Comércio Retalhista e o Investimento Publico-Privado nos Sistemas de Comercialização. Enfoque na horticultura com visão regional. David Tschirley, Munguzwe Hichaambwa, Miltone Ayieko, Val Kelly, e Jenny Cairns. Apresentada no Diálogo sobre promoção de crescimento agrário em Moçambique. Maputo. 21 Julho 2011.

Research Reports

• Análise de Custos e Rentabilidade da Produção Frangos no Sul de Moçambique – Estudo de Caso na Granja da Faculdade de Veterinária. Custódio da C. do Amaral and Gilead Mlay. Relatório Preliminar de Pesquisa No. 1. Janeiro, 2012.
• Introdução às Ligações Entre a Nutrição e a Agricultura. Kimberly Chung. WP 72P. Fevereiro de 2012.
• An Introduction to Nutrition-Agriculture Linkages. Kimberly Chung. WP 72E. February 2012.
• Determinants of Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005. David Mather. WP 71E. January 2012.
• A Estrutura e Tendência da Despesa Pública Agrícola em Moçambique. Helder Zavale, Gilead Mlay, Duncan Boughton, Adriano Chamusso, Helder Gemo e Pius Chilonda. WP 70P. Dezembro 2011.

Professional Publications

2012

• Benson, Todd, B. Cunguara, and Tewodaj Mogues. 2012. The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mozambique: Evidence for fertilizer policy development. A research report produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with the support of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
• Cunguara, B., J. Hanlon. 2012. Whose wealth is it anyway? Mozambique’s outstanding economic growth with worsening rural poverty. Development and Change. 2012, 43(3).
• Cunguara, B. 2012. An exposition of development failures in Mozambique. Review of African Political Economy. 39(131):161-70.

2011

• Cunguara, B., and I. Darnhofer. 2011. Assessing the impact of improved agricultural technologies on household income in rural Mozambique. Food Policy, 36(3): 378-390.
• Cunguara, B., G. Fagilde, J. Garrett, R. Uaiene, and Derek Heady. 2011. Growth without change: The elusiveness of agricultural and economic transformation in Mozambique. A study commissioned by IFPRI as part of the CAADP initiative in Mozambique.
• Cunguara, B., G. Fagilde, J. Garrett, R. Uaiene, and Derek Heady. 2011. Crescimento sem mudança: A elusividade da transformação agrária e económica em Moçambique. A study commissioned by IFPRI as part of the CAADP initiative in Mozambique.
• Cunguara, B., and J. Garrett. 2011. Análise situacional, constrangimentos e oportunidades para o crescimento agrário em Moçambique. MozSAKSS Working Paper. A study commissioned by IFPRI as part of the CAADP initiative in Mozambique.
• Cunguara, B., A. Langyintuo, and I. Darnhofer. 2011. The role of nonfarm income in coping with the effects of drought in southern Mozambique. Agricultural Economics, 42(6): 701-713.
• Kajisa, K. and E. Payongayong. 2011. Potential of and constraints to the rice Green Revolution in Mozambique: a case study of Chokwe irrigation scheme, Food Policy, 36(5): 614-625.

2010

• Tschirley, David and T.S. Jayne. 2010. Exploring the logic behind southern Africa's food crises. World Development, 38(1): 76-87

2009

• Cunguara, B., and K. Moder. 2011. Is agricultural extension helping the poor? Evidence from rural Mozambique. Journal of African Economies, 20(4): 562-595.
• Tschirley, David, Colin Poulton and Patrick Labaste, eds. 2009. "Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa: Learning from Reform Experience". Agriculture and Rural Development Research Report. World Bank. Washington, D.C.
• Tschirley, David, Miltone Ayieko, Munguzwe Hichaambwa, Joey Goeb, and Wayne Loescher. 2009. "Modernizing Africa's Fresh Produce Supply Chains without Rapid Supermarket Takeover: Towards a Definition of Research and Investment Priorities". Proceedings of the conference "Towards priority actions for market development for African farmers", International Livestock Research Institute and AGRA, Nairobi. May 15-17, 2009

Zambia

Research Reports

• Non-Timber Forest Products and Rural Poverty Alleviation in Zambia. Brian P. Mulenga, Robert B. Richardson, and Gelson Tembo. IAPRI Working Paper 62. April 2012.
• Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What are the Policy Implications? Munguzwe Hichaambwa and T. S. Jayne. IAPRI Working Paper 61. April 2012.
• The Effects of the Food Reserve Agency on Maize Market Prices in Zambia. Nicole M. Mason and Robert J. Myers. FSRP Working Paper No. 60. December 2011.
• Zambian Smallholder Behavioral Responses To Food Reserve Agency Activities. Nicole M. Mason, T. S. Jayne, and Robert J. Myers. FSRP Working Paper No. 59. December 2011.

Policy Syntheses

• Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What Are the Policy Implications? Munguzwe Hichaambwa and T. S. Jayne. Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute Policy Brief Number 54. Lusaka, Zambia. April 2012.
• Assessing the Feasibility of Implementing the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) Through an Electronic Voucher System in Zambia. Nicholas J. Sitko, Richard Bwalya, Jolly Kamwanga, and Mukata Wamulume. Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute Policy Brief Number 53. Lusaka, Zambia. April 2012.
• Getting More “Bang for the Buck”: Diversifying Subsidies Beyond Fertilizer and Policy Beyond Subsidies. William J. Burke, T. S. Jayne, and J. Roy Black. No. 52. March 2012.
• Can the FISP More Effectively Achieve Food Production and Poverty Reduction Goals? William J. Burke, T.S. Jayne, and Nicholas J. Sitko. No. 51. March 2012.
• The Effects of the Food Reserve Agency on Maize Market Prices in Zambia. Nicole M. Mason and Robert J. Myers. No. 50. December 2011.
• Zambian Smallholder Behavioral Responses To Food Reserve Agency Activities. Nicole M. Mason, T. S. Jayne, and Robert J. Myers. No. 49. December 2011.

Annual Project Report

• Food Security Research Project III – Zambia.  Annual Report, 2010/2011. (October 2010 to September 2011).

Policy Presentations

• Agricultural Policies and Food Security Challenges in Zambia. Auckland Kuteya. Presentation at the Africa Lead Champions for Change Leadership Training. Protea Hotel, Chisamba, Zambia. 16-20th April, 2012.
• Seeing the forest for the fuel and food: Non-timber forest products and rural development in Zambia. Robert B. Richardson. GSO Brown Bag Seminar Series, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Michigan State. 10 April 2012.
• Food Production & Security Difficulties Facing Zambia. A. Kuteya and T.S. Jayne. Presentation at the conference “Zambia 2012 - Shaping our Future,” Taj Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka, 29-30 March, 2012.
• The Revisions to the Cotton Act, 2005. Stephen Kabwe. Presented at the Zambia Cotton Ginners Association Meeting, Cargill Board Room, Chipata. 23 March 2012.
• Constraints on FISP as a Poverty Reduction Strategy. W.J. Burke, T.S. Jayne, J.R. Black and N.J. Sitko. Presentation for the Agricultural Cooperating Partners Meeting. Lusaka, Zambia. February 21, 2012.

Professional Publications

• Richardson, Robert B., Ana Fernandez, David Tschirley, and Gelson Tembo. (2012) Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare. World Development Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 1068–1081.

Media Coverage

• US to contribute over US$12 million to Agriculture policy research in Zambia. Lusaka Times. 10 February 2012.

Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Markets in Africa  (GISAMA)

Communications and Outreach

• Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Toward the Identification of Appropriate Rural Development Strategies. T.S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Jordan Chamberlin. African Studies Center Seminar, Michigan State University, January 19, 2012.