CRP2 Priority Setting
CRP2 research themes and subthemes
Purpose of the presentation
• Present CRP2 research themes and subthemes
• To allow participants to vote on the relative importance of the different subthemes
Other material useful for participants: CRP2 executive summary
THEME 3
Linking small producers to markets
THEME 2
Inclusive governance and institutions
THEME 1
Effective policies and strategic investments
3 Themes and 10 Subthemes
Subtheme 1.1 Foresight and strategic scenarios
Subtheme 1.2 Macroeconomic, trade, & investment policies
Subtheme 1.3 Production and technology policies
Subtheme 1.4 Social protection policies
Subtheme 2.1 Policy processes
Subtheme 2.2 Governance of rural services
Subtheme 2.3 Collective action and property rights
Subtheme 2.4 Institutions to strengthen the assets of the poor
Subtheme 3.1 Innovations across the value chain
Subtheme 3.2 Impact of upgrading value chains
Theme 1
Effective Policies and Strategic Investments
Theme 1 - Goal
Contribute to improved policies and investments that enhance food security and accelerate agricultural growth
Subtheme 1.1 Foresight and Strategic Scenarios
• Goal
–Improve design and cost-effectiveness of policies and investments for sustainably improving food security and agricultural growth
Subtheme 1.1 Foresight and Strategic Scenarios
• Activities – Designing scenarios reflecting emerging
challenges
– Modeling the consequences of these scenarios
– Using the modeling outputs to assess policies and investment allocations
Subtheme 1.1 Foresight and Strategic Scenarios
• Key features – A cross-center/cross-CRP subtheme
– Strategic foresight platform • Diversity of scenarios, models, perspectives and
analyses
• Data partnerships with Consortium on Spatial Information (CSI), HarvestChoice, Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), CIRAD, FAO…
• Extended collaboration with GFAR
• Goal
–Identify macroeconomic, trade, investment, and nonagricultural policies to enhance the contributions of agriculture to food security, poverty reduction, and sustainable resource management
Subtheme 1.2 Macroeconomic, Trade, & Investment Policies
Subtheme 1.2 Macroeconomic, Trade, & Investment Policies
• Activities – Identifying more effective international and
national macroeconomic and trade policies
–Going beyond trade: international migration and foreign direct investment
– Improving sectoral policies for broad-based rural growth
– Improving allocation, sequencing, and efficiency of public investments
Subtheme 1.2 Macroeconomic, Trade, & Investment Policies
• Key features – Working both at the general policy environment
level and in a variety of country contexts – Readily applicable tools for developing country
governments • How to improve trade negotiations • How to design macroeconomic, trade, and
nonagricultural policies for pro-poor agricultural growth
• How to make investments more efficient, including better budgetary allocation policies across sectors and within agriculture
Subtheme 1.3 Production and Technology Policies
• Goal
–Identify production and technology policies that enable pro-poor, gender-equitable and sustainable growth in agricultural productivity
• Activities –Analyzing role of public and private sector,
farm-level responses and market consequences for a range of policies • Policies for access to improved crops and animal
breeds • Policies for increased productivity under
land, water, and energy scarcity • Policies for technology development and
adoption • Policies for income diversification
Subtheme 1.3 Production and Technology Policies
• Key features – Addressing emerging drivers of global change:
growing food demand; increasing scarcity of natural resources…
– Partnerships with over 40 national agricultural research and extension institutions, in close collaboration with regional organizations (AARINENA…)
– Participation of smallholders, female farmers, rural laborers, and vulnerable groups
– A systems-based approach, in close collaboration with commodity CRPs
Subtheme 1.3 Production and Technology Policies
Subtheme 1.4 Social Protection Policies
• Goal
–Determine how safety net and insurance programs can promote agricultural development and increase rural incomes by reducing the vulnerability of the rural poor to risks
• Activities – Targeting beneficiaries of social protection
interventions, determining the distribution of benefits, and assessing the impacts on food security, poverty, and assets
– Analyzing synergies between social protection and the adoption of agricultural innovations
– Investigating new insurance products for poor households
Subtheme 1.4 Social Protection Policies
• Key features – Improved balance between components of
social protection provided by the market and those provided by the state
– Design of social protection interventions that reach neglected and vulnerable groups
– Improved understanding of the gender-differentiated impacts of social protection interventions
Subtheme 1.4 Social Protection Policies
Theme 2
Inclusive Governance and Institutions
Theme 2 - Goal
Examine the scope for policy, institutional, and governance reforms and contribute to effective and equitable access to rural services, property rights, collective action, and assets
• Goal
–Identify the factors that facilitate or limit the uptake of policy research findings, to better understand the pathways from research to policy and increase the likelihood that evidence-based policy options are adopted into reforms
Subtheme 2.1 Policy Processes
• Activities – Country-specific research on the politics of
supporting smallholders and women in agriculture and natural resource management
– Analysis of political participation and research-policy linkages
– Analysis of community and local government political processes
Subtheme 2.1 Policy Processes
• Key features – Determining political feasibility of reforms
and implementation
– Outputs of this subtheme will help other CRP2 subthemes achieve impact
– IFPRI’s Country Strategy Support Programs as a platform for dissemination and outreach
Subtheme 2.1 Policy Processes
• Goal
–Identify governance arrangements suitable for providing critical rural services and for supporting effective and equitable farmer organizations, resource user groups, and producer groups
Subtheme 2.2 Governance of Rural Services
• Activities – Analyze public sector reform strategies
– Study appropriate levels of political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization for agricultural services in different countries
– Identify innovative management approaches for the public sector
– Study the role of farmers’ empowerment for the adoption of reforms
Subtheme 2.2 Governance of Rural Services
• Key features – Governance arrangements for improved
infrastructure and services
– Impact of decentralization process on public service delivery
– Improved targeting of rural services to women, the poorest households, and socially excluded groups
Subtheme 2.2 Governance of Rural Services
• Goal
–Strengthen the role of property rights and collective action institutions in contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource management
Subtheme 2.3 Collective Action and Property Rights
• Activities – Research to strengthen property rights of
marginalized groups
– Examining interactions between various property rights and productivity/environmental sustainability
– Research on collective action to empower small-scale producers
Subtheme 2.3 Collective Action and Property Rights
• Key features – Innovative tenure measures to secure private,
collective, and common property
– Effectiveness of collective action groups and inclusion of women, marginal groups
– Development of intermediary institutions advocating for the provision of secure rights to resources
– Building on CAPRi’s work
Subtheme 2.3 Collective Action and Property Rights
• Goal
–Identify appropriate institutional structures to enable the poor to accumulate tangible and intangible assets and protect them from adverse shocks
Subtheme 2.4 Institutions to Strengthen
the Assets of the Poor
• Activities – Mapping asset portfolios and understanding
asset accumulation and disposal – Understanding the roles of assets in men’s and
women’s livelihoods and pathways from poverty
– Understanding the role of risk management and insurance in protecting assets
– Evaluating programs and policies to strengthen assets of the poor
Subtheme 2.4 Institutions to Strengthen
the Assets of the Poor
• Key features – Role of agricultural projects in asset
accumulation of men and women – Asset-based indicators to evaluate project and
program impacts on the poor – Comparative analysis across country case
studies – Gender-disaggregated datasets
Subtheme 2.4 Institutions to Strengthen
the Assets of the Poor
Theme 3
Linking Small Producers to Markets
Theme 3 - Goal
Increase competitiveness of markets to benefit producers and consumers and provide greater incomes by integrating small-scale producers into upgraded value chains
• Goal
–Improve the contribution of agricultural value chains to incomes of the poor, by identifying value-chain innovations
Subtheme 3.1 Innovations across the Value Chain
• Activities – Addressing concentrated input market
structure
– Reducing transaction costs
– Incentives for collective action and building social capital
– Reducing market risk
Subtheme 3.1 Innovations across the Value Chain
• Key features – An overarching theoretical framework for existing
research on value chains – Bringing behavioral economics into institutional
designs for farmer organizations and contract farming
– Linking with the private sector in designing interventions to link smallholders to markets
– Bringing industrial organization into value chain analysis
– Development of new risk aversion measures – Innovation in measuring access to markets
Subtheme 3.1 Innovations across the Value Chain
• Goal
–Develop a strategy and framework for assessing the impact of interventions designed to upgrade value chains across CRPs
Subtheme 3.2 Impact of Upgrading Value Chains
• Activities – Cross-CRP subtheme
– Designing rigorous and cost-effective methods for measuring the impact of interventions designed to upgrade value chains
– Implementing impact evaluations, documenting best practices and feeding them into knowledge clearinghouse
Subtheme 3.2 Impact of Upgrading Value Chains
• Key features – Mixed and innovative methods for monitoring
and evaluation
– Process indicators and impact indicators
– Gender-disaggregated data
Subtheme 3.2 Impact of Upgrading Value Chains