Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

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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

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Sep 11, 2018

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...

Policy and Governance

Creating an Enabling Environment for a Youth-Powered Agrifood System Transformation in Africa

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Aug 07, 2018

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...

Youth

Lack of Regulations Affects Market Entry: an Example From Rwanda

Food Security Policy Innovation Lab

Jul 30, 2018

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...

Agricultural Productivity Policy and Governance

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...

Gender Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth

About us

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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: maredia@msu.edu

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