Feed the Future
This project is part of the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative.
USAID

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

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 that affects millions of farmers and their agrodealers — the video explains how FSP researches policy processes and...
Policy and Governance
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Creating an Enabling Environment for a Youth-Powered Agrifood System Transformation in Africa

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 11 million young Africans entering the labor market each year will secure wage employment in the...
Youth
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Lack of Regulations Affects Market Entry: an Example From Rwanda

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 introduced a program to provide 350,000 poor families with one dairy cow each, adding to the 110,000...
Enabling Environment for Agricultural Market Systems
Agricultural Productivity
Policy and Governance
Photo: Women farmers in the dry lands of Mali. Credit: Ryan Vroegindewey, 2016.

Malian Women Farmers "Mind the Gap"

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

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

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

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

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

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
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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

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