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Overview

Melinda Smale is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, and Safety Research.

The research topics covered by Melinda Smale include Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Agricultural Pest Management Studies, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, and Genetically Modified Organisms Research.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Food Security, AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA), CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, Food Policy, and the Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Melinda Smale has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably Nelissa Jamora, Véronique Thériault, Amidou Assima, Yenizié Koné, and Willy Pradel.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Melinda Smale demonstrate a focus on biodiversity, agricultural adaptation, and genebanks. These include:

  • The welfare effects of crop biodiversity as an adaptation to climate shocks in Kenya, 2020, World Development
  • Valuing genebanks, 2020, Food Security
  • Transferring diversity of goat grass to farmers' fields through the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat, 2020, Food Security
  • The unintended consequences of the fertilizer subsidy program on crop species diversity in Mali, 2021, Food Policy
  • The tale of taro leaf blight: a global effort to safeguard the genetic diversity of taro in the Pacific, 2020, Food Security

Best Publications

  • Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Melinda Smale;Derek R. Byerlee;Thomas S. Jayne

  • Land Allocation in HYV Adoption Models: An Investigation of Alternative Explanations

    Melinda Smale;Richard E. Just;Howard D. Leathers

  • Agroenvironmental transformation in the Sahel: Another kind of “Green Revolution"

    Chris Reij;Gary Tappan;Melinda Smale

  • Maize in Eastern and Southern Africa: Seeds of Success in Retrospect

    Melinda Smale;Thomas S. Jayne

  • Maize Diversity, Variety Attributes, and Farmers’ Choices in Southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico*

    Melinda Smale;Mauricio R. Bellon;José Alfonso Aguirre Gómez

  • The Contribution of Genetic Resources and Diversity to Wheat Production in the Punjab of Pakistan

    Melinda Smale;Jason Hartell;Paul W. Heisey;Ben Senauer

  • Farmers' seed selection practices and traditional maize varieties in Cuzalapa, Mexico

    D. Louette;M. Smale

  • The economic determinants of cereal crop diversity on farms in the Ethiopian highlands

    Samuel Benin;Melinda Smale;John Pender;Berhanu Gebremedhin

  • "Maize is life": Malawi's delayed green revolution

    Melinda Smale

  • A Bayesian approach to explaining sequential adoption of components of a technological package

    Howard D. Leathers;Melinda Smale

  • Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda

    Enid Katungi;Enid Katungi;Svetlana Edmeades;Melinda Smale

  • Using a Choice Experiment to Estimate Farmers’ Valuation of Agrobiodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms

    Ekin Birol;Melinda Smale;Ágnes Gyovai

  • Agricultural marketing by smallholders in Kenya: A comparison of maize, kale and dairy

    John Olwande;Melinda Smale;Mary K. Mathenge;Frank Place

  • Maize of the ancestors and modern varieties: The microeconomics of high yielding variety adoption in Malawi

    Melinda Smale;Paul W. Heisey;Howard D. Leathers

  • Valuing Crop Biodiversity: On-Farm Genetic Resources and Economic Change

    Melinda Smale

  • Participatory landrace selection for on-farm conservation: an example from the central valleys of Oaxaca México

    Mauricio R. Bellon;Julien Berthaud;Julien Berthaud;Melinda Smale;José Alfonso Aguirre

  • Farmer preferences for milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: a latent class approach

    Ekin Birol;Eric Rayn Villalba;Melinda Smale

  • Dimensions of Diversity in Modern Spring Bread Wheat in Developing Countries from 1965

    M. Smale;M. P. Reynolds;M. Warburton;B. Skovmand

  • Farmer management of production risk on degraded lands: the role of wheat variety diversity in the Tigray region, Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Jean Paul Chavas;Melinda Smale

  • Impacts of subsidized hybrid seed on indicators of economic well‐being among smallholder maize growers in Zambia

    Nicole M. Mason;Melinda Smale

  • Unequal Exchange? Recent Transfers of Agricultural Resources and their Implications for Developing Countries

    Cary Fowler;Melinda Smale;Samy Gaiji

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauricio R. Bellon
Mauricio R. Bellon Arizona State University
Anthony H. D. Brown
Anthony H. D. Brown Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Nigel Maxted
Nigel Maxted University of Birmingham
Ravi P. Singh
Ravi P. Singh International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Phoebe Koundouri
Phoebe Koundouri Athens University of Economics and Business
Edward Souza
Edward Souza Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Ahmed Amri
Ahmed Amri International Center for Agricultual Research in the Dry Areas
Matthew P. Reynolds
Matthew P. Reynolds International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
José Crossa
José Crossa International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Marilyn L. Warburton
Marilyn L. Warburton United States Department of Agriculture

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