John H Sanders

Professor of Agricultural Economics

Department: Agricultural Economics
Phone: 765.494.4221
Office: Krannert 609
E-mail: jsander1@purdue.edu
Personal Web Page

Curriculum Vitae

Before coming to Purdue Sanders spent almost twelve years overseas doing his PhD fieldwork and working for the Ford Foundation in Brazil (Fortaleza, Ceara), as the economist in the Bean Program in CIAT (Cali, Colombia) and representing Purdue in a university development program in Portugal (Evora).

Since 1983 he has been at Purdue teaching economic development (see the link to his 2009 course notes) and doing field research focusing on the introduction of technological change in the semiarid agriculture of Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America ( Sanders-Shapiro, Vitale-Sanders, Abdoulaye-Sanders ) At the start of 2009 he had made 87 trips to Sub-Saharan Africa concentrating his activities recently in the Sahelian countries of Niger, Senegal and Mali.

Since 2003 he has been involved in a three Sahelian country Production-Marketing project designed to accelerate farm level technology adoption by introducing new marketing strategies for farmers’ organizations and collaborating with food scientists and animal scientists in developing contacts and working relationships with food and feed processors. This project is based upon the technology and marketing strategy recommendations in the 2006 American Society of Agronomy handbook on semiarid regions.

Sanders specializes in the economics of technological change. He has done many impact studies including three journal articles on the impact of agricultural technologies on women. As of 2009 he has 103 professional publications (journals and book chapters). In 1996 his work with his graduate students of 13 years in Africa was reported in The Economics of Agricultural Technology in Semiarid, Sub-Saharan Africa published by Johns Hopkins University Press (co-authored with two of his former graduate students).

- Recent Publications

Abdoulaye, T., J. H. Sanders, & B. Ouendeba (2008). Evaluation of Sorghum and Millet technology and Marketing Strategy Introduction:2006-07 Crop Year.

Winslow, M., B. Shapiro, & J. H. Sanders (2006). Policies, Institutions and Market Development to Accelearte Technological Change in the Semiarid Zon. Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Sub Saharan Africa. Dordrect, Netherlands: Springer.

Abdoulaye, T., & J. H. Sanders (2006). New technologies and improved marketing for traditional food crops : Millet in Niger. Agricultural Systems.

Wubenah, N., & J. H. Sanders (2006). Farm Level Adoption of Sorghum Technologies in Tigray, Ethiopia. Agricultural Systems.

Sanders, J. H., & B. Shapiro (2006). Policies and market development to accelerate technological change in the semiarid zones: A focus on. Dryland Agriculture Monograph (41 pages). Madison, Wisconsin: American Society of Agronomy. Soil Science Society, and Crop Science Society.

Vitale, J., R. Uaiene, & J. H. Sanders (2005). Combatting Insect Pests with Bioengineered Cultivars in West Africa: Economic Impacts in the Short and Long Run. Ag-bioforum.

Vitale, J. D., & J. H. Sanders (2005). New Markets and Technological Change for the Traditional Cereals in Sub Saharan Africa:The Malian Case. Agricultural Economics, 32, 111-129.

Abdoulaye, T., & J. H. Sanders (2005). Stages and Determinants of Fertilizer Use in Semiarid African Agriculture: The Niger Experience. Agricultural Economics, 32, 167-179.

Ouendeba, B., T. Abdoulaye, J. H. Sanders, & (2005). Strategias de Production, Transformation et Marketing: Report d'etape I, Mars 2005. Des Technologies de Production Jumelees avec des Strategies de Marketing pour les Paysans du Sahel.

Ouendeba, B., T. Abdoulaye, J. H. Sanders, & (2005). Accelerar l'introduction des technologies par amelioration des revenus des producteurs. Des Technologies de Production Jumelees avec des Strategies de Marketing pour les Paysans du Sahelr.