Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation A View from Africa

Gem Argwings-Kodhek is Senior Research Fellow at the Tegemeo Institute of Egerton University. Ousmane Badiane is Senior Economist with the Rural Development Department of the World Bank's Africa Region. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, where he led the institute's research program on output market development and reform. Badiane is also Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Antony Chapoto is currently a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. He has received several distinctions bestowed by the Africa University in Zimbabwe. His work currently focuses on the determinants and effects of land allocation patterns within Zambia's small-scale farming sector. Niama Nango Dembele is Assistant Professor, International Development, in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University (MSU). A citizen of Mali, he is based in Bamako, where he coordinates a program funded by USAID and jointly implemented by MSU and the Malian Chamber of Agriculture, to strengthen agricultural market information and food policy analysis in Mali. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from MSU and has worked on food policy and marketing issues in Mali since 1985. Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin is currently Research Fellow in the Markets and Structural Studies Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute, where she specializes in research on market institutions and transaction costs economics. She has previously held positions at the World Bank as well as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. She was awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in 1999 by the American Agricultural Economics Association. Jones Govereh is Research Fellow, Food Security Research Project in Lusaka, Zambia. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1999, where he was a recipient of the Robert Mugabe Sustainable Development Fellowship. He also received a research fellowship from the International Livestock Research Institute in 1995 for his research in Zimbabwe on the socio-economic impacts of tsetse fly control. His current research focuses on input marketing and policy issues in developing countries with a focus on fertilizer in Zambia. Tony Hawkins is Professor of Business Studies and Director of the MBA Programme, University of Zimbabwe. He studied Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Harvard University, U.S. He has authored numerous books, reports, and papers on corporate strategies and industrial development issues and options, and survey articles for the UK-based Financial Times. Anthony Ikpi is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and is affiliated with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan. Catherine L. Ives is a visiting Associate Professor and former Director of the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project at Michigan State University (MSU). She was formerly an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow, an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Congressional Fellow, and a Fulbright Fellow to the United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990. T.S. Jayne is Professor, International Development, in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on agricultural markets and political economy issues. Jayne sits on several international advisory and editorial boards and contributed to the 1993 United Nations Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation, the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, the Secretariat of Global Agricultural Science Policy for the Twenty-First Century, the Rockefeller Foundation's Agricultural Markets Strategy for Africa, and the 1999 World Food Prize Conference. Vinanchiarachi Jebamalai studied economics at the University of Madras, India. His degrees include an M.A., M.Phil., D.H.Ed., and Ph.D., with distinctions. Currently he is working for the Industrial Policies and Research Branch of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, and is the author of a recent book portending the East Asian financial crisis, Myths and Realities of East Asian Model of Development: Lessons for India. Bruce F. Johnston is Professor Emeritus, former Food Research Institute, Stanford University. Mywish K. Maredia is the Deputy Director of the Bean/Cowpea CRSP and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. She has worked extensively in the area of the economics of agricultural research and development. Her research has focused on the economics of agricultural research and development, including assessment of research spillovers, intellectual property rights, the economics of biotechnology, and seed system development. Maredia was the recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in 1994 from the American Agricultural Economics Association. Isaac J. Minde is a Tanzanian agricultural economist with a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He was the Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Sokoine University of Agriculture from 1990-1993, and an economist with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture from 1993-1996. He is now Coordinator of the Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis based in Entebbe, Uganda. Anthony Mwanaumo is Secretary of the Agricultural Consultative Forum, Government of Zambia, and formerly Deputy Director of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. Mwanaumo received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1997. James K. Nyoro is Senior Research Fellow at the Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University, Kenya. His area of expertise is in agricultural marketing and reform; he has played a prominent role in advising the Kenyan government and international organizations on the economic liberalization strategy in the country, especially relating to the coffee, maize, wheat, and horticulture sub-sectors. In recent years, he has worked with the Government of Kenya to prepare several national policy strategies, including the Agriculture Sector Review Paper, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, and the Kenya Rural Development Strategy. Prior to joining the Tegemeo Institute, Nyoro worked with the Coffee Research Institute for ten years. Steven Were Omamo is currently at the Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis in Entebbe, Uganda. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Stanford University, and received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award from the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1997. Omamo was formerly a Research Scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi. He has worked with Egerton University in Kenya, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, and the International Service for National Agricultural Research. Torben M. Roepstorff is Senior Economist of the Industrial Policies and Research Branch of UNIDO. He served as Team Leader of the UNIDO Industrial Sector Survey Team and as Chief of the Industrial Development Review Unit of UNIDO. He has published extensively on Asia and Pacific as well as African industrial development issues and policies. He holds a M.Sc. degree from the Copenhagen School of Economics and a Dr. Rer. Soc. Oec. degree from the Vienna University of Economics. John M. Staatz is Professor of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. Since 1984 he has worked on issues related to food policy analysis in West Africa, particularly in francophone countries and especially in Mali. In addition to numerous articles and monographs on food security, Staatz is co-editor of International Agricultural Development (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Florence Wambugu is an agricultural plant pathologist with a specialization in virology and genetic engineering for viral diseases crop protection. At the time of her contribution to this volume, she was the Director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, African Biotechnology Program. She holds membership positions in the Private Sector Advisory Committee of the CGIAR, the DuPont Biotech Advisory Panel, and is an executive member of the African Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum. Kandeh K. Yumkella is the United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO) Representative in Nigeria and Director of the new UNIDO Regional Industrial Development Centre (RIDC) in Lagos, Nigeria. He also served as Director of the Africa and LDCs Bureau in UNIDO Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 1996-2000, and Special Adviser to the Director General in 1996. Yumkella was an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, 1991-1996, during which he took a leave-of-absence to serve as Secretary of State/Minister of Trade, Industry and State Enterprises in Sierra Leone (1994-1995).Jayne, T. S. is the author of 'Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation A View from Africa' with ISBN 9781590333440 and ISBN 1590333446.