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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Les impacts économiques du COVID-19 en Afrique urbaine et rurale: Des résultats inattendus dans cinq pays
Published on September 24, 2021
Les résultats sont présentés suivant deux aspects : 1) les impacts sur le revenu et la pauvreté et 2) les impacts sur la consommation alimentaire et la sécurité alimentaire. -
Reforming Fertilizer Import Policies for Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Systems in Sri Lanka: Is there a Policy Failure?
Published on September 13, 2021
This policy brief illustrates how the policy environment on fertilizer influences the performance of the agricultural systems in Sri Lanka. -
The Effects of COVID-19 on Food Security in Urban and Rural Mali
Published on September 3, 2021
Beyond health effects, the pandemic has affected how Malians, in both rural and urban areas, eat, work, and live. -
Early Impacts of COVID 19 on Household Incomes and Food Consumption - the Zambian Case
Published on September 3, 2021
Projections of the COVID-19 impact in early 2020 were that developing countries in the global south with historic system inefficiencies would be the worst hit. -
Urban and Rural Areas Have Seen Similar Impacts From COVID-19 in Kenya
Published on August 6, 2021
Olwande J., Timothy, N., Ayieko, M., Maredia, M., & D. Tschirley, 2021 Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence. Policy Research Note 2. East Lansing: Michigan State University. -
Impact of COVID-19 on Household Incomes and Food Consumption – The Zambian Case
Published on August 5, 2021
Kabisa, M., Subakanya, M., Malambo, M.,Chapoto, A., Maredia, M., & D. Tschirley, 2021 Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence. Policy Research Note 1. East Lansing: Michigan State University. -
Economic impacts of COVID-19 in urban and rural Africa: Surprising results from five countries
Published on June 2, 2021
Based on the findings of a nationally representative phone survey we assess the food security impact of COVID-19 on five African countries (Kenya, Mali Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia) -
Analysis to Guide USAID Mozambique Programmatic Investments in Agriculture and Food Nutrition Security
Published on March 31, 2021
This report was produced by Michigan State University for USAID/Mozambique as an input into the mission’s decision making regarding agricultural programming in Nampula and Zambézia provinces.