Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI)
Director
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Leadership
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Suresh Babu
Asia Lead and Senior Research Fellow / Head of Capacity Strengthening, IFPRI
S.Babu@cgiar.org
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Christopher Barrett
Director STAAARS Plus and Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and International Professor of Agriculture, Cornell University
cbb2@cornell.edu
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John Bonnell
Senior Capacity Development Specialist
bonnell3@msu.edu
517-884-2987
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Kristin Davis
Research-to-Policy Lead and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
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Thomas Jayne
ReNAPRI Liaison and University Foundation Professor, MSU/AFRE
jayne@msu.edu
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Nicole Mason-Wardell
Technical Training Co-Lead and Associate Professor, MSU/AFRE
masonn@msu.edu
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Gender Lead and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
R.MEINZEN-DICK@CGIAR.ORG
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David Ortega
Southeast Asia Lead
dlortega@msu.edu
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Véronique Thériault
Technical Training Co-Lead and Associate Professor, MSU
theria13@msu.edu
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Overview
A collaborative effort among consortium partners that seeks to enhance the ability of local policy research organizations to conduct high-quality food security policy research and influence food security policy more effectively while becoming increasingly self-reliant.
Objectives
- Institutional Capacity Strengthening: PRCI bases its approach to institutional capacity strengthening on four principles of action: co-creation, integration, customization, and excellence. These principles reflect our consortium’s vision of the best way to improve the credibility of country and regional research institutions and of their policy research results and thereby ensure that local policy makers take up and apply the results of the Lab’s global research.
- Collaborative Research: PRCI is committed to a process that grounds a global research agenda in local realities and priorities. Following initial discussions among the consortium members, we propose three broad themes for this global agenda:
- Inclusive agricultural and rural transformation to raise rural household incomes (including small farmers) , and to create more decent jobs particularly for young women and men;
- Development of healthy food systems, including regulatory issues and private sector engagement, in ways that address food safety and the triple burden of malnutrition; and
- Enhanced resilience at individual, household, national and regional levels (to climate and other sources of shocks) to achieve economic and environmental sustainability.
- Strengthening Policy Influence: PRCI assists local institutions to assess their position within their local and regional policy system and outline what capacities they need to operate more effectively in it, bringing their research to bear on policy decision-making.
Start Date
May 15, 2019
Anticipated End Date
May 14, 2024
Funding
- USD11 million in core funding
- Up to USD27 million in funding from mission and bureau buy-ins and associate awards
- Total funding of up to USD38 million
- Funding period: June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2024 (5 years)
Partnering Institutions
- Consortium partners
- ReNAPRI (Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes)
- ISSER (Institute for Statistical, Social, and Economic Research - Ghana)
- IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)
- Cornell University
- Centers for Policy Leadership
- The Economic Policy Research Center (ERPC) in Uganda
- The Bureau of Macroeconomic Analysis (BAME) of the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research
- Innovation Lab for Policy Leadership in Agriculture and Food Security (PiLAF) based out of the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria
- Kasetsart University in Thailand
- Country Partners
All Publications
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Measuring the Heterogeneous Effects of Input Subsidies on Household Outcomes: Evidence from Malawi
Published on February 7, 2023
Working Paper from the STAAARS+ Fellowship program cohort 2 team from Malawi about input subsidy effects on household outcomes in Malawi. -
Scoping Study of Agriculture Development Strategy of Nepal (ADS) (Five-year achievements)
Published on February 1, 2023
Research Paper 23. Scoping Study of Agriculture Development Strategy of Nepal (ADS) (Five-year achievements) -
Assessment of the Policy Enabling Environment for Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) —With an Application to Kenya—
Published on December 5, 2022
PRCI Research Paper #13. Assessment of the policy enabling environment for large-scale food fortification using a novel framework. -
Developments in Agriculture Trade in the BIMSTEC Region
Published on October 19, 2022
Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) research paper on developments in agriculture trade in the BIMSTEC region -
Sustainable food system in Southeast Asia under and beyond COVID--19 conference synthesis
Published on August 30, 2022
Conference synthesis of the international virtual conference on sustainable food system in Southeast Asia under and beyond COVID-19: policy evidence and call for action -
The Impact of COVID-19 on household income in Thailand
Published on July 2, 2022
Policy Brief #7. Research on how COVID-19 impacted household income in Thailand -
Economic burden of COVID-19 continues as Kenya enters the twelfth month into the pandemic
Published on July 1, 2022
Policy Brief #6. This research aimed to monitor and analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated containment measures on rural and urban livelihoods in Kenya, to help guide resource allocation and inform policy actions for future crises. -
Policy support for sustainable agricultural intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa: Where are we 20 years on?
Published on April 5, 2022
Research Paper # 10. This study critically reviewed policy documents and associated budgets of six sub-Saharan African countries GDP and almost 60% of inorganic fertilizer use in the region. -
THE EXPORT POTENTIAL OF LAOS AGRI-FOOD TO THE EU MARKET
Published on April 5, 2022
Research Paper #9. This study aims to understand the export potential of Lao agri-food products, export impediments, and composition of market access for exporting Lao agricultural products to the EU market. -
How Specific Resilience Pillars Mitigate the Impact of Drought on Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
Published on February 9, 2022
Policy Brief #3. Resilience factors that mitigate the impact of drought in Uganda.