Thom Jayne

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  Specialized maize cultivation on fragile land brought soil degradation; corrupt marketing boards undermined the revolution and led to its eventual collapse, wrote Thom Jayne, who teaches agricultural economics at Michigan State University in the US, in a paper he co-authored.
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  "These were unintended consequences", Jayne told IRIN.

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  The study has been authored by Thom Jayne, who teaches international development at MSU, Antony Chapoto, with MSU's Food Security Research Project in Zambia; Isaac Minde, principal economist with a joint Southern African Development Coordination Committee and the international crops research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics venture based in Zimbabwe and, Cynthia Donovan of MSU.

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  Tom: Where are the race pictures taken by the photographer?
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  Thom Jayne plays a variety of instruments, including guitar, banjo and didgeridoo.
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  After performing and recording with the band 'Pariah' on the east coast in the late 1970s, Thom Jayne sold everything, joined the Peace Corps, and moved to the savannah of Ghana in West Africa at 24. Several of the band's original compositions were conceived during his two-year stay in a small village there.

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  "These measures impede grain flowing from surplus to deficit areas within the region," said Thom Jayne, who teaches agricultural economics at Michigan State University (MSU) in the US.
  
  "It is a travesty that 95 percent of all the grain imported by countries in sub-Saharan Africa is grown by farmers on other continents; only five percent of this grain comes from exports by neighbouring countries.This unfortunate situation is reinforced by a "beggar thy neighbour" approach to trade within the region," he said.
  
  As an example of what regional trade can achieve, Jayne pointed out that in January 2005, "Kenya dropped its import tariff on maize from Uganda and Tanzania as part of the East African Commission trade agreement.

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  "These measures impede grain flowing from surplus to deficit areas within the region," said Thom Jayne, who teaches agricultural economics at Michigan State University (MSU) in the US.
  
  "It is a travesty that 95 percent of all the grain imported by countries in sub-Saharan Africa is grown by farmers on other continents; only five percent of this grain comes from exports by neighboring countries.This unfortunate situation is reinforced by a "beggar thy neighbor" approach to trade within the region," he said.
  
  As an example of what regional trade can achieve, Jayne pointed out that in January 2005, "Kenya dropped its import tariff on maize from Uganda and Tanzania as part of the East African Commission trade agreement.

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  "These measures impede grain flowing from surplus to deficit areas within the region," said Thom Jayne, who teaches agricultural economics at Michigan State University (MSU) in the US.
  
  "It is a travesty that 95 percent of all the grain imported by countries in sub-Saharan Africa is grown by farmers on other continents; only five percent of this grain comes from exports by neighbouring countries. This unfortunate situation is reinforced by a "beggar thy neighbour" approach to trade within the region," he said.
  
  As an example of what regional trade can achieve, Jayne pointed out that in January 2005, "Kenya dropped its import tariff on maize from Uganda and Tanzania as part of the East African Commission trade agreement.

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  The study has been authored by Thom Jayne, who teaches international development at MSU, Antony Chapoto, with MSU,s Food Security Research Project in Zambia; Isaac Minde, principal economist with a joint Southern African Development Coordination Committee and the international crops research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics venture based in Zimbabwe and, Cynthia Donovan of MSU.

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  T.S. Jayne is Professor, International Development at Michigan State University.

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  T.S. Jayne, J. Govereh, P. Chilonda, N. Mason, A. Chapoto and H. Haantuba
  
  Michigan State University
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  Evidence compiled in related nationally-representative surveys using the same sample frame as the PHS find, for example, that in 2002/03, the value of horticultural and animal product sales were each almost as high as the value of maize sales by the smallholder sector (Zulu, Jayne, and Beaver 2006).

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  "While many farms in Asia were similarly very small at the time of their green revolutions, many of them enjoyed irrigation, higher returns to fertiliser that could be achieved with water control, and more than one cropping season," said authors Thom Jayne, professor of international development at Michigan State University; David Mather, formerly at Michigan State University; and the World Bank's Elliot Mghenyi.

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