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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

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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.

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What's FSP? The Answer in a 3-Minute Video

This 3-minute video presents an overview of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy (FSP). Taking the example of input subsidy reform in Zambia — a reform...
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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Sep 11, 2018
Policy and Governance
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Creating an Enabling Environment for a Youth-Powered Agrifood System Transformation in Africa

Africa’s population and labor force are expanding rapidly but opportunities for decent employment are growing very slowly. Even under the most favorable growth projections, less than a quarter of the...

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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Aug 07, 2018
Youth
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Lack of Regulations Affects Market Entry: an Example From Rwanda

In 2013, Rwanda’s dairy sector comprised approximately 15 percent of its agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) and six percent of overall national GDP. At that time, the government of Rwanda...

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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Jul 30, 2018
Agricultural Productivity Policy and Governance
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Malian Women Farmers "Mind the Gap"

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...

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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Aug 31, 2017
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Driving Change in Nutrition Policy Requires the Confluence of a Number of Key Elements

This article was written by Sheryl L Hendriks, Suresh C Babu, and Steven Haggblade. Please note: This content was created three or more years ago and may contain out-of-date information...

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Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

May 22, 2017
Nutrition
Taking Livestock to Market in Ethiopia
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Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility

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Between 2007 and 2008, world governments made decisions that, in conjunction with extreme weather events, turned an already alarming food supply and demand situation into a global food price crisis...

Markets and Trade Policy and Governance
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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: [email protected]

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