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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The PIM Program Management Unit has spent much of the first quarter of 2016 finalizing the program proposal for Phase 2 (2017-2022). This has been an enormous effort, with contributions from researchers, partners, IFPRI (PIM Lead Center) management, and donors. We are very pleased with the quality of the proposal, and sincerely thank all who have helped to shape it. We will keep you posted as we navigate the review and approval processes. 

While preparing the proposal and also in preparation for the PIM 2015 annual report to the Consortium Office (due at the end of April), we have made progress in finalizing our list of ISI publications for 2012-2015, which shows a large body of excellent and relevant research. We encourage our researchers and partners to use the PIM Branding and Acknowledgment Guidelines to help us maintain the list and give full recognition to the research products.   

Simultaneously with attention to design of Phase 2, PIM researchers have continued to deliver important ongoing work. The second part of the Agri-Gender special issue was released in March, with major input from the PIM team of gender experts (see Selected Publications below). Work of the foresight modeling team was featured in an article in The Lancet  on health impacts of changes in food supply associated with climate change. The article has received a lot of attention, and has generated discussion and understanding of the breadth of applications of the foresight modeling tools. A number of PIM researchers will participate in the upcoming GCARD3 Global Conference in South Africa in early April, and in the Science Forum in Addis Ababa in mid-April. The International conference on Agriculture & Food Systems, Climate Change and Nutrition in CIS Countries featuring the Global Nutrition Report 2015, was organized by the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS) in partnership with IFPRI, the World Bank, Moscow State University, PIM, and A4NH, and took place on 11 February in Moscow, Russia. The "Nairobi Package" agreement secured at the 10th World Trade Organization ministerial conference in December 2015 and containing important outcomes for agriculture spurred a very lively discussion at the policy seminar “Options for global agricultural trade after Nairobi: Global solutions or national actions?” organized by the PIM's Value Chains team on 23 February. On 29 February - 2 March, Kamiljon Akramov represented PIM in the Central Asia regional consultation, part of the CGIAR regional consultations process and the International Conference on Eurasian Food Security and Nutrition Network and Eurasian Soil Partnership, both held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

For more information on these and other items, see the newsletter below. We thank you again for your interest and contributions.

Karen Brooks
In this Issue
From PIM News Blog >>
  • Making sense of land, statistics, and gender
  • Reinforcing the gender lens in research on value chains and technology adoption
  • Call for Concept Proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project
  • Call for papers: EDM special edition on value chain development in agriculture
  • Water, jobs, and women: The invisible links
  • Workshop: Impact evaluation for definition of priorities of agricultural research
  • To the Editor: “Socio-economic data products are increasingly available to the public”
  • Biotechnology and agriculture: facing opportunity and criticism of equal proportion
  • Development from within: Lessons from Uganda on strengthening women’s voices in environmental governance
  • What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’?
  • Celebrating Pi Day: What pie charts can tell us about gender gaps in control over land
  • Strengthening women’s land rights: What does data have to do with it?
  • Testing a new approach to drive inclusive business in Peru
  • ASTI: Supporting a fresh perspective on agricultural research and development in Nigeria
  • A step closer to a reformed agricultural research system in Nigeria
From PIM News Blog

Making sense of land, statistics, and gender

“Making sense of Land, Statistics and Gender”, a new infographic by the Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) explores the correct use of land ownership statistics (ownership understood in a broad sense beyond individual property rights) and highlights how gender can influence land rights. 
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Reinforcing the gender lens in research on value chains and technology adoption

The CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) have been collaborating on reinforcing the gender focus in research on value chains development and technology adoption for a few years now. In this post, our colleagues from the International Potato Center (CIP) share some recent updates on this work from Uganda and Latin America and Caribbean region.
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Call for Concept Proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project

Application deadline: April 30, 2016

In collaboration with Cornell University, the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) will provide technical mentorship and support for early-career African researchers who will be selected for fellowship under the STAARS initiative.

PIM is happy to announce a call for concept proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship, supported by the United States Agency for International Development.

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Call for papers: EDM special edition on value chain development in agriculture

Enterprise Development and Microfinance (EDM), a peer-reviewed international journal providing a forum for those involved in designing and running value chain and private sector development programs and microfinance in developing countries, invites researchers and development practitioners to share their unique insights on the topic in the new special edition titled “Value chain development in agriculture: improved support for smallholders and SMEs”. The issue will be published in December 2016; deadline for abstract submission is 13 May 2016, for article submission – 29 July 2016.

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Water, jobs, and women: The invisible links

by Ruth Meinzen-Dick
The theme for this year’s World Water Day (March 22)—“water and jobs”— is intended to draw attention to the often invisible role of water in creating and supporting jobs, and how better water supplies could create better jobs.  Nowhere is this more applicable than for women’s access to water, especially in rural areas.

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Workshop: Impact evaluation for definition of priorities of agricultural research

In response to the high interest in agricultural innovation in Latin America, the International Potato Center (CIP), the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) of Peru, and the Learning Alliance of Peru in collaboration with the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organize a workshop on Evaluation of impact for the definition of priorities of agricultural research in Lima, Peru on April 20-22, 2016.
 

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To the Editor: “Socio-economic data products are increasingly available to the public”

HarvestChoice researchers summarize new data paradigm in the journal Nature Climate Change.

In a Nature Climate Change commentary published last year, Otto et al. highlight a scalar divide in data between natural and social sciences and point out the need for subnational socioeconomic datasets, calling for a “new paradigm in data gathering”. 

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Biotechnology and agriculture: facing opportunity and criticism of equal proportion

David Spielman, senior research fellow at IFPRI and PIM’s leader of the Science Policy and Incentives for Innovation research cluster, recently participated in the International Symposium on The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In his blog Walking the wire on biotechnology at FAO, David shares his impressions about the lively and sometimes heated discussion on the current state of agricultural biotechnologies and contemplates on what is needed to move forward and embrace “opportunity and criticism of equal proportion” faced by the agricultural science today. 

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Development from within: Lessons from Uganda on strengthening women’s voices in environmental governance

This story originally published by the NewSecurityBeat blog and featuring the Collaborating for Resilience initiative tells what structured efforts to create inclusive dialogue can do to contribute to more equitable resource management and more resilient livelihoods in the communities fraught with conflict.

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From EnGendering Data Blog

What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’?

by Alastair Orr
“Women’s crops” is a familiar feature in writing about smallholder agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara. Although not always easy to define, they generally refer to crops grown by women for home consumption rather than for sale. What happens to women’s control when these crops find a market? 

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Celebrating Pi Day: What pie charts can tell us about gender gaps in control over land

by Caitlin Kieran and Cheryl Doss
In recognition of Pi Day (Greek letter π), celebrated each March 14th(03/14), here are some pie charts to illustrate key findings on gender gaps in control over land.  Some recent surveys collect information on who within households owns land, allowing us to analyze the gender gaps.

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Strengthening women’s land rights: What does data have to do with it?

by Cheryl Doss
The call for International Women’s Day 2016 asks people to Pledge for Parity. The pledge offers five components: help women and girls achieve their ambitions, challenge conscious and unconscious bias, call for gender-balanced leadership, value women and men’s contributions equally, and create inclusive, flexible cultures. While all of these are important, none of them highlight the ways in which women and girls have less access to the resources that they will need to succeed. 

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From PIM Partners' Blogs

Testing a new approach to drive inclusive business in Peru

CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) has worked successfully for many years on the development of models for inclusive business culminating in the LINK method. Though this work we collaborate with a range of partners to support the design and testing of novel, more inclusive approaches to agribusiness with the end goal of shifting business practice in ways that benefit small farmers, agricultural laborers and other marginal groups along the value chain from production to consumption while at the same time adding commercial value to the relationship. 

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ASTI: Supporting a fresh perspective on agricultural research and development in Nigeria

Nigeria has long been heavily dependent on oil to drive its economy. But with today’s historically low oil prices, its economy is suffering and its leaders are looking towards other sources of revenue. With Nigeria’s abundant natural resources and potential, agriculture is an obvious choice.

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A step closer to a reformed agricultural research system in Nigeria

by Suresh Babu
Under auspices of PIM, IFPRI is involved in understanding the reform process of the Nigerian Agricultural Research system. Funded by the West African Agricultural Productivity Program, the project intends to revitalize the research system in Nigeria through systematic changes in the institutional architecture and organizational management of the research, extension, and educational institutions. 
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Selected Publications

BOOK

Economics of land degradation and improvement - A global assessment for sustainable development.

Nkonya, Ephraim, ed.; Mirzabaev, Alisher, ed.; and von Braun, Joachim, ed. 2016.
Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19168-3

This new book available under the Open Access licence develops a conceptual framework for a more comprehensive assessment of the costs of land degradation by including the value of land ecosystem services; provides practical analytical methods for determining the costs and drivers of land degradation at various scales; and demonstrates the application of these concepts and methods at the national level through 12 case studies.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security (Agri-Gender)

Second part of the two-volume special issue on Gender and Policies, Markets, and Institutions funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and co-edited by Jemimah Njuki (Agri-Gender's editor in chief) and Cheryl Doss (PIM Gender Lead).
See March 2016 issue>>

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: A modelling study.
Springmann, Marco; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robinson, Sherman; Garnett, Tara; Godfray, H. Charles J.; Gollin, Douglas; Rayner, Mike; Ballon, Paola; and Scarborough, Peter. 
The Lancet. Article in press. First published online on March 3, 2016. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01156-3

Do female instructors reduce gender bias in diffusion of sustainable land management techniques? Experimental evidence from Mozambique.
Kondylis, Florence; Mueller, Valerie; Sheriff, Glenn; and Zhu, Siyao. 
World Development 78 (February 2016): 436 - 449.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.036

Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects.
Johnson, Nancy L.; Kovarik, Chiara; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Njuki, Jemimah; and Quisumbing, Agnes R.
World Development. Article in press. First published online on February 24, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.009

What role for cooperation in conservation tenders? Paying farmer groups in the High Andes.
Narloch, Ulf; Drucker, Adam G.; and Pascual, Unai.
Land Use Policy. Article in press. First published online on October 21, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.09.017
Upcoming Events
5-8 April 2016, Ekurhuleni, South Africa
Global Event for the Third Global Conference on Agricultural Research and Development (GCARD3). Karen Brooks will participate.
 
12-14 April 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2016 Science Forum: “Agricultural research for rural prosperity: rethinking the pathways”. Karen Brooks will co-ordinate a break-out session “Policies, institutions, and markets”. Ruth Meinzen-Dick will present Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) findings in the opening plenary.

12-14 April 2016, Accra, Ghana
12th CAADP Partnership Platform meeting. Frank Place, Kerri Wright-Platais, and Jawoo Koo will attend.
 
20-22 April 2016, Lima, Peru
Workshop on Evaluation of impact for the definition of priorities of agricultural research. Co-organized by CIP, the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) of Peru, the Learning Alliance of Peru, CIAT, and IFPRI under auspices of PIM.

2-7 May 2016, Dakar, Senegal
The First Conference of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI): Restoring Africa’s Landscapes – The Way Forward. Frank Place will participate in a session “Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands: Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience”. He will also give a presentation on “The potential contribution of tree-based systems”. 

Check Upcoming Events on the PIM website for more information >>
 
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