These Feed the Future  policy areas...

...address these kinds of policy challenges

Resilience and agricultural risk management

• Support humanitarian needs assessments and policies
• Generate evidence to inform social safety net programs
• Help inform policy framework for climate-smart agriculture

Example: Strengthening safety nets in Bangladesh through partnerships and evidence

Agricultural inputs

• Support reform of seed laws and regulations to make certified and other good-quality seed more widely available
• Encourage and facilitate the development of networks of agrodealers that will make quality inputs available at reasonable prices, and also serve as a conduit for knowledge and tailored extension advice on improved, sustainable soil management
• Support policy efforts to reduce counterfeiting, adulteration, mislabeling and other quality issues for fertilizers, pesticides and other inputs including animal feeds and veterinary drugs

Example: How to Tell Fake From Real? Consequences of Rapid Herbicide Market Growth in Mali and West Africa

Enabling environment for private sector investment

• Improve access to agricultural financing to increase sector investment
• Encourage strategy development at the national level to deal w/major concerns (e.g., unified policy for private-sector investment, strategic grain reserves and mitigation of commercial farming on smallholders).
• Establish or enhance market information systems which are increasingly important to actors across the spectrum

Nutrition

• Support the development and ratification of national policy for improved nutritional status
• Encourage the establishment of institutional structure to support integrated government programs on nutrition
• Support the development of regulations designed, formalized and implemented for improving food safety and food fortification

Example: Drivers of Micronutrient Policy Change in Zambia: An application of the Kaleidoscope Model

Or  https://www.spring-nutrition.org/publications/series/pathways-better-nutrition-country-case-studies

Land and natural resources tenure, rights and governance

• Support process to improve land tenure certification/registration
• Help provide analysis to guide laws and regulations governing land leasing/other mechanisms to facilitate access to land for larger-scale ag production
• Improve land use and natural resource management planning frameworks, databases, etc.

Example:

https://www.land-links.org/2014/11/burma-draft-national-land-use-policy-open-for-public-consultations/

Agricultural trade

• Support analysis to help strengthen trade policies
• Support efforts to simplify the administration of procedural barriers and integration of 1-stop border systems
• Support the move toward transparent, science-based ag regulatory regimes, including improved SPS, grades and standards

Example: https://www.agrilinks.org/post/crossing-border-creating-business-friendly-environment-inclusive-economic-growth

Institutional Architecture

• Improve local policy research institute data/analysis
• Increase govt demand for evidence based policy analysis
• Create cross-sectoral platform for inclusive policy dialogue and learning
• Build agriculture stakeholder consensus on metrics to improve accountability for stakeholder commitment

Example: https://www.agrilinks.org/blog/developing-inclusive-multistakeholder-ag-policy-kenya