Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

The Food Security Policy Innovation Lab is helping establish policies conducive to market-led, smallholder-focused, inclusive agricultural growth and food security by focusing on country-level research, capacity building, global research and support to donor food policy work.

Photo: Women farmers in the dry lands of Mali. Credit: Ryan Vroegindewey, 2016.

Malian Women Farmers "Mind the Gap"

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Aug 31, 2017

A recent study from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy in Mali compared adoption and intensity of fertilizer use as well as productivity between men and women growers of sorghum within the same households.

Gender

Feeding on Farmed Fish

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Jun 01, 2017

In response to the declining availability of wild fish stocks and growing consumer demand, aquaculture (fish farming) has become the world's fastest growing food production sector...

Aquaculture & Fisheries

Agricultural Productivity

Nutrition

Driving Change in Nutrition Policy Requires the Confluence of a Number of Key Elements

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

May 22, 2017

Improving nutrition requires multi-sectoral national policies and programs.

Nutrition

Policy and Governance

From the Other Great Lakes: Around Rwanda’s Coffee

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Apr 20, 2017

Coffee production has been at the core of farm family livelihoods in Rwanda for many generations. Today, it is the source of cash income for over 355,000 households across the country.

Agricultural Productivity

Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Annual Report

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Jan 29, 2016

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy recently released its annual report covering research and activities progress over the past year. The overall goal of the FSP program is to promote inclusive agricultural productivity growth, improved nutritional outcomes, and enhanced...

Agricultural Productivity

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Policy and Governance

Development Digest: Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Feb 09, 2015

Missed the Special Event on Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility? No problem! Read the recap here.

Markets and Trade

Policy and Governance

Agrilinks Event

Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility

Feb 02, 2015

During this seminar, Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Danielle Resnick will discuss drivers of food policy change and government decision-making related to agriculture and nutrition policy.

Markets and Trade

Policy and Governance

Lead Institute

Michigan State University

Focus countries

Burma, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania

Research and Outreach Interests

Impact assessment of agricultural R&D and adoption of improved technologies
Methods and approaches to evaluate impacts of agricultural development interventions on developmental goals (i.e., poverty, food and nutritional security)
Seed system development issues and policies in developing countries

US based partners

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The International Food Policy Research Institute will apply its substantial expertise in the development of sound and appropriate local, national, and international public policies that are essential to achieving sustainable food security and nutritional improvement.

Focus country partners

University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria (UP) will support policy system assessments and capacity building in Africa, and contribute its expertise in food, nutrition, and agriculture linkages at country, regional and global levels.

Learn more

Visit our website to find the latest on our research, including policy papers and presentations.

Stay in touch

Email our director Mywish Maredia, Director of Food Security Policy Innovation Lab for more information: maredia@msu.edu