Tanzania
- The capital is Dodoma and the largest city is Dar es Salaam.
- The official languages are French and Swahili
- Area: 365,756 sq mi (approx. 3x the size of the State of Michigan)
- Population approx. 56 million in 2016
- Climate: Tanzania’s climate is tropical with coastal areas being hot and humid, while the northwestern highlands are cool and temperate.
Fun fact: Mt Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania and at 19,341 feet above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Africa.
News
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Three new visiting scholars at the Food Security Group
Published on September 28, 2022
Visiting scholars from Tanzania and Nigeria settled in East Lansing to work with Food Security Group faculty -
Launch of New Research Project in Nigeria and Tanzania
Published on May 17, 2022
Research Supporting African MSMEs to Provide Safe and Nutritious Food (RSM2SNF) Launching -
$4M grant awarded for research on Nigerian and Tanzanian food systems
Published on March 15, 2022
Saweda Liverpool-Tasie wins $4M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue agrifood value chain research in Nigeria and Tanzania. -
The 6th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) in Dodoma, Tanzania from 12th – 14th February 2020
Published on January 9, 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy will be supporting the 6th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) in Dodoma, Tanzania on February 12-14, 2020. -
Research on Farm Input Subsidies has Important Implications for African Policymakers
Published on October 3, 2019
University Foundation Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics (AFRE), Thomas Jayne, recently spoke to African policymakers at the African Green Revolution Forum in Ghana. -
5th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference in Tanzania
Published on February 12, 2019
The 5th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) has kicked off in Dodoma, Tanzania, bringing leaders in the area to discuss progress and challenges. -
"Rise of the Medium-Scale Farms" in The Citizen - Tanzania
Published on November 20, 2018
Article by Thom Jayne and Milu Muyanaga was featured in the December 20, 2018 print edition of The Citizen - Tanzania. -
Land Pressure and African Agricultural Development
Published on October 30, 2018
An interview with Thomas Jayne, SciDevNet, 10/30/18 -
WEBINAR: Do Medium and Large-scale Farms Generate Income Spillovers for Rural Households?
Published on October 30, 2018
WEBINAR, Nov. 6, 2018, 10-11 AM - T. Jayne and J. Chamberlin: What's the impact of land acquisitions by foreign and local investors on smallholder households and rural communities? -
Tax Reforms Benefit Farmers and Traders: A Case of Tea Production and Marketing in Tanzania
Published on September 26, 2018
How our ASPIRES Tanzania team research on crop cess study benefits farmers.
Publications and Presentations
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Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain
Published on September 30, 2023
PRCI Research Paper 22. Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain -
Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Published on August 18, 2022
Dolislager, M., LSO Liverpool-Tasie, N.M. Mason, T. Reardon, D. Tschirley. 2022. Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Agricultural Economics. -
Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: Evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
Published on August 18, 2022
Dolislager, M., Liverpool‐Tasie, L. S. O., Mason, N. M., Reardon, T., & Tschirley, D. (2022). Consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods by the African poor: Evidence from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Agricultural Economics. -
Farm-level production diversity and child and adolescent nutrition in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, longitudinal study
Published on May 2, 2022
Khonje, M. G., Ricker-Gilbert, J., Muyanga, M., & Qaim, M. (2022). Farm-level production diversity and child and adolescent nutrition in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, longitudinal study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(5), e391–e399. -
Consumption of processed food & food away from home in big cities, small towns, and rural areas of Tanzania
Published on July 10, 2021
Sauer, C.M., Reardon, T., Tschirley, D., Liverpool-Tasie, S., Awokuse, T., Alphonce, R., Ndyetabula, D., Waized, B. (2021) "Consumption of processed food & food away from home in big cities, small towns, and rural areas of Tanzania."
People
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Thomas Jayne
MSU Foundation Professor emeritus
jayne@msu.edu
517-432-9802
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Mywish Maredia
Professor
maredia@msu.edu
517-353-6602
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Nicole Mason-Wardell
Associate Chairperson, Graduate Program Director, and Associate Professor
masonn@msu.edu
517-432-4446
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David Mather
Assistant Professor
matherda@msu.edu
517-449-9694
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Isaac Joseph Minde
Professor
mindeisa@msu.edu
+25 523-260-0742
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Milu Muyanga
Associate Professor
muyangam@msu.edu
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David Nyange
Associate Professor
nyange@msu.edu
+255-754-272-573
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Oyinkan Chukuka Tasie
Assistant Professor
otasie@msu.edu
517-355-0131
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David Tschirley
Professor
tschirle@msu.edu
517-355-0134