Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Food Security Group

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  June Was Food Security Policy Month on Agrilinks

  Published on July 2, 2018
  See how we explained and shared our expertise on policy and food security in developing countries, with 7 blogs and 1 webinar.

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  Why the Influence of Agricultural Policy Research is Probably Greater than We Think

  Published on June 30, 2018
  We believe there are at least three categories of impactful policy-oriented research that development organizations should be promoting, even though it may be difficult to track the immediate impact of such research on a policy change.

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  Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition Policy Coherence

  Published on June 26, 2018
  Food security involves many sectors and partners requiring to make sure that policy is coherent across sectors. How then do governments ensure policy congruence?

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  FSP and IAPRI Technical Training on Applied Econometrics and Stata

  Published on June 26, 2018
  FSP in Zambia brings technical support to IAPRI, a think tank on agricultural policy analysis.

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  Spinning the Kaleidoscope Model

  Published on June 22, 2018
  The complexity of the policy process can be analyzed with the Kaleidoscope Model that helps identify 16 variables at play during the design and implementation of a policy.

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  Are Medium-scale Farmers Driving Agricultural Transformation in Africa?

  Published on June 21, 2018
  The rapid change from small-scale farms and medium-scale one has many implications for the agricultural production of developing countries.

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  Strengthening National Policy Systems: Bridging the Disconnect between the Evidence and Action

  Published on June 18, 2018
  Agrilinks "Ask the Experts" on policy process, with FSP's Suresh Babu and Duncan Boughton. Ask your own question, live, June 25, 9:30-10:00 EDT

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  Building Resilience through Better Policies

  Published on June 15, 2018
  How is FSP addressing resilience through policies? The multi-pronged strategy is illustrated with examples of the Lab’s outputs, in Agrilinks, June 15, 2018

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  Guidance and Capacity Critical to National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (NAIP) ...

  Published on June 15, 2018
  Sheryl Hendriks, Agrilinks, June 15, 2018. Dramatic change has been happening in Africa for at least the past decade.

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  NAPAS: Malawi Value Chain Studies at the World Banks’ ICABR Conference in DC

  Published on June 14, 2018
  NAPAS: Malawi published six value chain studies to inform Malawi's policy makers and investors: Cassava, groundnuts, macademia, pigoen pea, potato and tea.