Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI)
Director
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David Tschirley
Director and Professor, MSU/AFRE
tschirle@msu.edu
Leadership
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Suresh Babu
Asia Lead and Senior Research Fellow / Head of Capacity Strengthening, IFPRI
S.Babu@cgiar.org
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Christopher Barrett
Director STAAARS Plus and Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and International Professor of Agriculture, Cornell University
cbb2@cornell.edu
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John Bonnell
Institutional Capacity Strengthening Lead
bonnell3@msu.edu
517-884-2987
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Kristin Davis
Research-to-Policy Lead and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
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Thomas Jayne
ReNAPRI Liaison and University Foundation Professor, MSU/AFRE
jayne@msu.edu
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Nicole Mason-Wardell
Technical Training Co-Lead and Associate Professor, MSU/AFRE
masonn@msu.edu
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Gender Lead and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
R.MEINZEN-DICK@CGIAR.ORG
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Véronique Thériault
Technical Training Co-Lead and Associate Professor, MSU
theria13@msu.edu
for the entire PRCI team go here.
Overview
A collaborative effort among consortium partners that seeks to enhance the ability of local policy research organizations to conduct high-quality food security policy research and influence food security policy more effectively while becoming increasingly self-reliant.
Objectives
- Institutional Capacity Strengthening: PRCI bases its approach to institutional capacity strengthening on four principles of action: co-creation, integration, customization, and excellence. These principles reflect our consortium’s vision of the best way to improve the credibility of country and regional research institutions and of their policy research results and thereby ensure that local policy makers take up and apply the results of the Lab’s global research.
- Collaborative Research: PRCI is committed to a process that grounds a global research agenda in local realities and priorities. Following initial discussions among the consortium members, we propose three broad themes for this global agenda:
- Inclusive agricultural and rural transformation to raise rural household incomes (including small farmers) , and to create more decent jobs particularly for young women and men;
- Development of healthy food systems, including regulatory issues and private sector engagement, in ways that address food safety and the triple burden of malnutrition; and
- Enhanced resilience at individual, household, national and regional levels (to climate and other sources of shocks) to achieve economic and environmental sustainability.
- Strengthening Policy Influence: PRCI assists local institutions to assess their position within their local and regional policy system and outline what capacities they need to operate more effectively in it, bringing their research to bear on policy decision-making.
Start Date
May 15, 2019
Anticipated End Date
May 14, 2024
Funding
- USD11 million in core funding
- Up to USD27 million in funding from mission and bureau buy-ins and associate awards
- Total funding of up to USD38 million
- Funding period: June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2024 (5 years)
Partnering Institutions
- Consortium partners
- ReNAPRI (Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes)
- ISSER (Institute for Statistical, Social, and Economic Research - Ghana)
- IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)
- Cornell University
- Centers for Policy Leadership
- The Economic Policy Research Center (ERPC) in Uganda
- The Bureau of Macroeconomic Analysis (BAME) of the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research
- Innovation Lab for Policy Leadership in Agriculture and Food Security (PiLAF) based out of the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria
- Kasetsart University in Thailand
- Country Partners
All Publications
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Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain
Published on September 30, 2023
PRCI Research Paper 22. Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain -
Confluence of climate, violence, disease, and cost shocks: vulnerability of and impacts on Nigerian Maize Traders
Published on September 6, 2023
PRCI Research Paper #20. Confluence of climate, violence, disease, and cost shocks: vulnerability of and impacts on Nigerian Maize Traders -
Sugarcane Production and Food Security in Uganda
Published on September 1, 2023
PRCI Research Paper #23 Sugarcane Production and Food Security in Uganda -
Institutional Arrangements Between Sugarcane Growers and Millers in Uganda and Implications for Grower Productivity and Profitability
Published on September 1, 2023
PRCI Research Paper #22 Institutional Arrangements Between Sugarcane Growers and Millers in Uganda and Implications for Grower Productivity and Profitability -
The Impact of Chemical Fertilizer Ban on the Paddy Sector: Propensity Score Matching and Value Chain Analysis
Published on September 1, 2023
PRCI Research Paper #21 The Impact of Chemical Fertilizer Ban on the Paddy Sector: Propensity Score Matching and Value Chain Analysis -
Structural Transformation in Rural Ghana: The Trends and Drivers Policy Brief
Published on August 10, 2023
PRCI Policy Brief 10. Structural Transformation in Rural Ghana: The Trends and Drivers -
Structural Transformation in Rural Ghana: The Trends and Drivers
Published on August 1, 2023
PRCI Research Paper #19. Structural Transformation in Rural Ghana: The Trends and Drivers -
Guidelines for Measuring Changes in Greenhouse Gases, Land Uses and Climate Parameters using Satellite Remote Sensing Data
Published on August 1, 2023
CACCI Field Notes 5. Guidelines for Measuring Changes in Greenhouse Gases, Land Uses and Climate Parameters using Satellite Remote Sensing Data. -
Spatial Distribution of Climate Risk and Vulnerability in Nigeria
Published on August 1, 2023
CACCI Field Notes 7. Spatial Distribution of Climate Risk and Vulnerability in Nigeria. -
Spatial Distribution of Climate Risk and Vulnerability in Senegal
Published on August 1, 2023
CACCI Field Notes 6. Spatial Distribution of Climate Risk and Vulnerability in Senegal.