Crp2 presentation 4

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


• Activities – Designing scenarios reflecting emerging

challenges

– Modeling the consequences of these scenarios

– Using the modeling outputs to assess policies and investment allocations


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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 1.4 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


• 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


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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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



• 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



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


• 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


• 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


• Key features – Mixed and innovative methods for monitoring

and evaluation

– Process indicators and impact indicators

– Gender-disaggregated data
