2. 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
3. 3 Themes and 10 Subthemes
THEME 1 THEME 2 THEME 3
Effective policies and Inclusive governance Linking small
strategic investments and institutions producers to markets
Subtheme 1.1 Subtheme 2.1 Subtheme 3.1
Foresight and strategic Policy processes Innovations across
scenarios the value chain
Subtheme 1.2 Subtheme 2.2 Subtheme 3.2
Macroeconomic, trade, Governance of rural Impact of upgrading
& investment policies services value chains
Subtheme 1.3 Subtheme 2.3
Production and Collective action and
technology policies property rights
Subtheme 2.4
Subtheme 1.4 Institutions to
Social protection policies strengthen the assets
of the poor
5. Theme 1 - Goal
Contribute to improved policies and
investments that enhance food
security and accelerate agricultural
growth
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Subtheme 1.2
Macroeconomic, Trade, & Investment Policies
• Goal
–Identify macroeconomic, trade,
investment, and nonagricultural
policies to enhance the contributions
of agriculture to food security, poverty
reduction, and sustainable resource
management
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Subtheme 1.3
Production and Technology Policies
• 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. Subtheme 1.4
Social Protection Policies
• 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
17. 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
19. 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
20. Subtheme 2.1
Policy Processes
• 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. Subtheme 2.2
Governance of Rural Services
• Goal
–Identify governance arrangements
suitable for providing critical rural
services and for supporting effective
and equitable farmer organizations,
resource user groups, and producer
groups
24. 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
25. 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
26. Subtheme 2.3
Collective Action and Property Rights
• Goal
–Strengthen the role of property rights
and collective action institutions in
contributing to poverty reduction and
sustainable natural resource
management
27. 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
28. 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
29. Subtheme 2.4
Institutions to Strengthen
the Assets of the Poor
• Goal
–Identify appropriate institutional
structures to enable the poor to
accumulate tangible and intangible
assets and protect them from adverse
shocks
30. 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
31. 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
33. 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
34. Subtheme 3.1
Innovations across the Value Chain
• Goal
–Improve the contribution of
agricultural value chains to incomes
of the poor, by identifying
value-chain innovations
35. 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
36. 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
37. Subtheme 3.2
Impact of Upgrading Value Chains
• Goal
–Develop a strategy and framework for
assessing the impact of interventions
designed to upgrade value chains
across CRPs
38. 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
39. 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
