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• FSP’s Mid-term Performance Evaluation Is Featured on USAID DEC Newsletter

  Published on December 21, 2017
  This report summarizes the principal findings of the evaluation, and includes 20 priority recommendations for strengthening implementation of the project for the length of the project,

• David Tschirley Speaks at Lessons from IFPRI Policy Seminar

  Published on May 30, 2019
  David Tschirley was asked to speak at the Lessons from IFPRI Country Programs on Informing Policy Decisions and Strengthening Capacity Policy Seminar

• The 2015 Survey to Evaluate the Quality of Policy Processes in Malawi

  Published on January 5, 2017
  FSP conducted a survey to provide a baseline understanding of the quality of these policy processes.

• The Farmer Organization Development Strategy (FODS) is Validated

  Published on September 6, 2018
  Malawi FODS are "an important milestone for the agriculture commercialization objective of the Ministry."

• Malawi Land Symposium video

  Published on February 12, 2018
  The 2016 Malawi Land Symposium summarized in a video, told by Flora Nankhuni, FSP NAPAS: Malawi Chief of Party.

• Media Training: “Journalism Ethics in Agriculture: Avoiding Fake News”

  Published on June 20, 2017
  About 40 journalists from different media houses across the country played "The Whisper Game" and found out how fake news happen. Salima, Malawi, June 19-22, 2017

• Policy Roundtables in Rwanda Foster Dialogue Among Coffee Sector Stakeholders

  Published on September 29, 2017
  Over the last 18 months, AGLC has offered a series of 10 policy roundtables to improve the capacity of the Rwandan government to implement evidence-based policies supporting the coffee sector.

• What's FSP? The answer in a 3-minute video

  Published on September 10, 2018
  An overview video explains what we do, with the example of a policy reform in Zambia.

• Redesigning the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) for Malawi

  Published on March 16, 2015
  Key lessons learned from the FISP implementation so far and reform highlights of the program to unleash the program’s full potential for achieving Malawi’s development goals.

• 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

• Government Includes Rice in Subsidy Programme

  Published on October 19, 2018
  NAPAS: Malawi supports the rice subsidy program reform.

• NAPAS: Malawi Value Chain Studies Inform Selection of Value Chains to Be Developed under the World Bank Agricultural Commercialization Project

  Published on October 3, 2018
  At the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, NAPAS: Malawi conducted several value chain studies to guide further agricultural investments.

• Training One to Train Others - Capacity Building at the Kebbi State Ministry of Agriculture and R…

  Published on August 8, 2017
  The Policy project organized a two day training on “Introduction to Stata” for Planners, Policy Analysts, Heads of Departments, and Directors of the Kebbi State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Agricultural Development Programme.

• Myanmar's Rural Revolution: Mechanization & Structural Transformation

  Published on November 1, 2018
  What's the disconnect between evidence of a dynamic and rapidly transforming economy, and the widely reported low levels of agricultural mechanization? by Myat Thida Win, Ben Belton, and Xiaobo Zhang.

• FSP Researchers Lead Special JDS Issue

  Published on March 2, 2018
  FSP C4a (Upstream Global Research Policy) leader T. Jayne, and collaborators, are guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

• How to Tell Fake from Real? Consequences of Rapid Herbicide Market Growth in Mali and West Africa

  Published on December 8, 2017
  With a rapid increase in herbicide use, the West Africa region needs to implement regulations to fight counterfeit products.

• The Acceleration of Mechanization in the Agricultural Sector

  Published on January 5, 2017
  Factors toward Agricultural Mechanization in Burma

• The Rise of Medium-size Farms: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

  Published on January 5, 2017
  The rapid rise of medium-scale holdings in most cases reflects increased interest in land by urban-based professionals or influential rural people associated with rapidly rising urban population growth and demand for food in Africa.

• Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa

  Published on July 29, 2017
  MSU researcher Thomas Jayne cited in New York Times article, Disappearance of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ in Africa, by Jeffrey Gettleman, page 1, Sunday, July 30, 2017. Print edition.

• Promoting US national interests through supporting agricultural development in Africa

  Published on June 2, 2017
  Thomas Jayne's testimonial at the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Agriculture, regarding The Next Farm Bill: The Future of International Food Aid and Agricultural Development.