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 Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Our PIM team has been active in the quarter just ending. Several of us were in Johannesburg in early April for the Global Event of the Third Global Conference on Agricultural Research and Development (GCARD3). Frank Place, Kerri Wright-Platais, and Jawoo Koo attended the 12th CAADP Partnership Platform meeting in Accra, Ghana. Rajul Pandya-Lorch presented for Ruth Meinzen-Dick (who was unable to attend in person) findings of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) in the opening plenary at the 2016 Science Forum: “Agricultural research for rural prosperity: rethinking the pathways” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I coordinated a break-out session on policies, institutions and markets during the same event (Editor: See a 5-min video of Karen’s impressions about the forum here). David Spielman moderated a very interesting policy seminar on Supplying High-Quality Seeds and Traits to Smallholder Farmers: Policy and Investment Options for Developing-Country Seed Systems (read more in this IFPRI blog: Delivering seeds of change to smallholder farmers).
Frank Place attended the First conference on the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI) in Dakar, Senegal on May 3. He presented his chapter on tree based systems from the World Bank-coordinated study Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands: Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience. PIM contributed substantively and financially to the study. Its messages about the future of the drylands -- for example, that resilience and poverty reduction will be very hard to achieve and can only be approached at adequate scale through simultaneous attention to agricultural innovation, diversified livelihoods, safety nets, and disaster risk management -- are reaching large audiences.
More information on past events that PIM supported or participated in can be found on our website.
I attended the annual meeting of CRP Directors in Montpellier in June and stayed on as CRP representative for the final meeting of the Consortium Board before the introduction of the new governance arrangements for CGIAR on July 1. The Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) of CGIAR conveyed comments on the CRP proposals for Phase 2 during the Directors’ meeting, with suggestions for areas of the proposals that should be strengthened for the July 31 resubmission. We have communicated the comments within the drafting team, and revisions are under way. Approval of the Phase 2 proposals by the CGIAR System Council is expected in November.
We wish our team member Froukje Kruijssen, PIM’s Focal Point at WorldFish, well as she transitions to her new job at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. We will miss Froukje, but are pleased to know that Blake Ratner will be taking over the Focal Point duties.
IFPRI signed Memoranda of Understanding with World Vision and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA). In both cases the work to be pursued will fall within the PIM program. Collaboration with World Vision will emphasize development in “really hard places” (specifically focusing on low-input technologies and linkage between social protection and agricultural production), M&E, and evidence-based policy research and support. Collaboration with ASARECA focuses on priority setting, value chains, policy analysis, scaling up, M&E, and capacity strengthening.
For more information about recent events and activities, please see the newsletter below. To those who will have some time off this summer—enjoy a well-deserved vacation. To those who will be working with us in the PMU on the revisions to the Phase 2 proposal—big thanks in advance!
Karen Brooks
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From PIM News Blog
From EnGendering Data Blog
From PIM Partners Blog
Selected Publications
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New PIM brochure: what we do in four pages
Check out our new four-pager which includes: general program's overview; six areas of emphasis for the PIM research; an overview of the outcomes we seek and the questions we ask; how we achieve impact; what users say about our work; who we partner with. Download the brochure (pdf, 140kb) >>
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International conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking local and global dynamics
The conference will take place on 12-14 December 2016 in Montpellier, France, and will bring together participants from multiple world regions to discuss the role of agricultural value chains in implementing global and local frameworks and partnerships for translating the Sustainable Development Goals into reality. PIM is helping plan the agenda of the conference and will sponsor several participants.
Calls for presentations and posters are open till July 25. Registration for the conference will open in July 2016.
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PIM contributes to the Global Gender and Environment Outlook
The Global Gender and Environment Outlook (GGEO), a collaborative project between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and strategic partners, is the first comprehensive global assessment of inter-linkages between gender and the environment.
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IFPRI/PIM team receives World Bank Group, SVRI Award for Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
PIM is excited to congratulate our current and former IFPRI colleagues Akhter Ahmed, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, and Shalini Roy with the reception of the Award for Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence from the World Bank Group and nonprofit Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI).
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Can cash transfers prevent intimate partner violence?
by Melissa Hidrobo, Amber Peterman, and Shalini Roy
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally—with 1 in 3 women physically or sexually abused by a partner in her lifetime. Of course, averages hide important disparities: Women living in Tokyo’s bustling urban affluence face a different probability of victimization than an impoverished women living in the sprawling slums of Lagos. Yet, partner violence remains stubbornly high—affecting women in all walks of life across the globe.
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Piloting 5Capitals-G: a gender-responsive tool for assessing poverty impacts of value chain development
by Dietmar Stoian, Marlène Elias, Hugo Lamers, and Gennifer Meldrum
A new methodology to assess the poverty impacts of value chain development in a gender-responsive way is set to prove its value in a pilot phase, starting mid-2016 in Guatemala, India, and Peru. To prepare for the launch of the methodology called 5Capitals-G, field researchers from three parts of India were trained in a workshop in April. The training was co-funded by the CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA).
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Bringing statistics on public expenditures up to SPEED: database and web tool updated
The Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development, sporting a catchy acronym SPEED, is an open access database managed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with support from PIM. It is also a user friendly interactive web tool allowing to view, compare, and download data on public expenditures from 147 countries from 1980-2012. The latest edition of SPEED (third since 2010) and the updated data visualization tool were presented at IFPRI on May 19.
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Webinar: Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys
PIM Gender team members Cheryl Doss and Caitlin Kieran invited participants to discuss how the "Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis" drafted by PIM in 2014 have been used to date, with a specific focus on lessons learned by CGIAR centers and external partners.
Co-organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
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Getting a GRIPP on sustainable groundwater management
Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP), a new global multi-partner initiative, launched at the South Asia Groundwater Forum in June, seeks to support and scale up practical solutions for groundwater management for sustainable development and food security. Download the GRIPP Concept Note and Brochure to learn more about the initiative and how to join it. Check the upcoming events where GRIPP will be represented.
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Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean “well placed” to feed growing global population due to increased investment in agricultural research
IFPRI press-release
The data from Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators (ASTI), released online and summarized in a regional report, “Agricultural Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Cross-Country Analysis of Institutions, Investment, and Capacities,” is focused on agricultural research and development (R&D) spending, funding sources, and human capacity, and allows users to examine key indicators across countries including investment levels and growth as well as gender, age, and education levels of researchers.
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Introducing Africa south of the Sahara Food Security Portal
Africa south of the Sahara Food Security Portal, launched in 2015 and facilitated by IFPRI, is a clearinghouse for food security- and nutrition-related data, research, and news at both the regional and the national level. A thematic blog provides the latest publications and analysis on topics like food access and consumption, risk and resilience, input markets, nutrition, climate change, and trade policies.
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Gender and Land Statistics: new FAO info-note based on a collaborative work with PIM
In 2014, FAO joined forced with PIM to develop a common framework for producing sex-disaggregated indicators for FAO’s Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD). As a result of this work, five indicators were developed. The new info-note provides an overview of the indicators, methodology behind them, and the key concepts that they capture.
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From EnGendering Data Blog
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Mining gender information in policy research
by Tatiana Gumucio
To date, this blog has highlighted many of the challenges faced when collecting sex-disaggregated data through household surveys. In this post, we shift our focus to the complexities of assessing gender integration in policy documents.
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Workshop on impact assessment for priority setting in agricultural research
by International Potato Center (CIP)
The workshop, organized as part of the International Potato Center's implementation strategy of the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight project (PIM's Flagship 1), and of the Innovative Value Chain Hubs and Platforms activity (PIM's Flagship 3), took place at CIP HQ in the city of Lima, Peru in April 20-22, 2016.
The main objective was to increase participants’ awareness on the different state-of-the-art methods for ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment studies which generate evidence on the effectiveness of research-based rural development interventions.
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Gender component featured in AGRODEP training on tools for value chain analysis
by AGRODEP
From March 29 – April 1, 2016, the African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP) hosted a two-part training course on Tools for Value Chain Analysis. The course was conducted as part of AGRODEP’s Tools for Value Chain Analysis Virtual Hub and had support from PIM. The aim of the course was to strengthen regional capacity for value chain analysis using two tools: the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA).
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GFSF extended team meeting in Kenya
by Global Futures and Strategic Foresight
The Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) Program held its semi-annual extended team meeting from 17 to 19 May 2016, bringing team members from all 15 CGIAR Centers together in Naivasha, Kenya.
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Policy dialogue on Comprehensive assessment of pressures on water resources and its effect on the agricultural sector and food security in Tunisia
by Global Futures and Strategic Foresight, ICARDA
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) organized on May 10-11 meetings with Tunisian policy makers and other national partners to share preliminary results of the research conducted as part of the PIM activities led by ICARDA and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
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Book: Food price volatility and its implications for food security and policy
Kalkuhl, Matthias, ed.; von Braun, Joachim, ed.; and Torero, Maximo, ed. 2016. Food price volatility and its implications for food security and policy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5
#OpenAccess
The new book edited by Matthias Kalkuhl, Joachim von Braun, and Maximo Torero, is devoted to the stability dimension of food security and in particular the causes, consequences, and remedies related to extreme events in food markets.
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Book: Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies
Chen, Kevin Z., ed.; Zhang, Qiang, ed.; Hsu, Claire, ed. 2016. Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896298743
#OpenAccess
The Wenchuan County earthquake of 2008 was the most severe earthquake in the history of the People’s Republic of China. The authors analyze how various government agencies, private businesses, and nongovernmental organizations responded to the disaster and which responses proved most effective and which areas still need attention.
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Book synopsis: Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges
The forthcoming IFPRI book edited by André Devaux, Maximo Torero, Jason Donovan, and Douglas Horton draws on research on agricultural innovation, rural livelihoods, value chains, and contract farming in different geographic, social, economic, and institutional contexts to identify several common themes related to value chain development (VCD), some of which have policy implications.
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Discussion paper: Qualitative methods for gender research in agricultural development
For gender research, qualitative methods can be particularly helpful in illuminating how men and women view their lives. The new PIM/IFPRI discussion paper by Deborah Rubin describes the use of qualitative approaches to illuminate gender relations in agricultural development research and project implementation.
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Bell, Andrew; Matthews, Nathanial; and Zhang, Wei. 2016. Opportunities for improved promotion of ecosystem services in agriculture under the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 6(1): 183 - 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13412-016-0366-9
Bernier, Quinn; Sultana, Parvin; Bell, Andrew R.; and Ringler, Claudia. 2016. Water management and livelihood choices in southwestern Bangladesh. Journal of Rural Studies 45(June 2016): 134 - 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.12.017
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred. 2016. Effects of the 2008 flood on economic performance and food security in Yemen: A simulation analysis. Disasters. Disasters 40(2): 304 - 326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12147
Diao, Xinshen; Kennedy, Adam. 2016. Economywide impact of maize export bans on agricultural growth and household welfare in Tanzania: A dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model analysis. Development Policy Review 34(1): 101 - 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12143
Fukase, Emiko; and Martin, Will. 2016. Who will feed China in the 21st century? Income growth and food demand and supply in China. Journal of Agricultural Economics 67(1): 3-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12117
Gouse, Marnus; Sengupta, Debdatta; Zambrano, Patricia; and Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin. 2016. Genetically modified maize: Less drudgery for her, more maize for him? Evidence from smallholder maize farmers in South Africa. World Development 83: 27 - 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.03.008
Holden, Stein Terje; and Ghebru, Hosaena. 2016. Land rental market legal restrictions in Northern Ethiopia. Land Use Policy 55: 212 - 221.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.04.006
Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Gastelo, Manuel; Ritchie, Joe; Nelson, Gerald C.; and Asseng, Senthold. 2016. Simulating cultivar variations in potato yields for contrasting environments. Agricultural Systems 145: 51 - 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.02.011
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Spielman, David J.; and Veettil, Prakashan C. 2016. Exploring the supply and demand factors of varietal turnover in Indian wheat. Journal of Agricultural Science 154(2): 258 - 272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021859615000155
Lambrecht, Isabel; Vanlauwe, Bernard; and Maertens, Miet. 2016 Integrated soil fertility management: from concept to practice in Eastern DR Congo. International International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 14(1): 100 - 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2015.1026047
Liu, Yanyan; and Myers, Robert J. 2016. The dynamics of microinsurance demand in developing countries under liquidity constraints and insurer default risk. Journal of Risk and Insurance 83(1): 121 - 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jori.12044
Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Vervoort, Joost; Palazzo, Amanda; Islam, Shahnila; Lord, Steven; Helfgott, Ariella; Havlík, Petr; Peou , Rathana; Sassen, Marieke; Veeger, Marieke; van Soesbergen, Arnout; Arnell, Andrew P.; Stuch, Benjamin; Arslan, Aslihan; and Lipper, Leslie. 2016. Multi-factor, multi-state, multi-model scenarios: Exploring food and climate futures for Southeast Asia. Environmental Modelling & Software 83: 255 - 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.05.008
Marshall, M.; Okuto, E.; Kang, Y.; Opiyo, E.; and Ahmed, M. 2016. Global assessment of Vegetation Index and Phenology Lab (VIP) and Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) version 3 products. Biogeosciences 13: 625 - 639. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-625-2016
Minten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; Engida, Ermias; and Kuma, Tadesse. 2016. Transforming staple food value chains in Africa: The case of teff in Ethiopia. The Journal of Development Studies 52(5): 627 - 645. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1087509
Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework; Siddiqi, Afreen; and Ringler, Claudia. 2016. Drivers of groundwater use and technical efficiency of groundwater, canal water, and conjunctive use in Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System. International Journal of Water Resources Development 32(3): 459 - 476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2015.1133402
Mogues, Tewodaj; and do Rosario, D. 2016. The political economy of public expenditures in agriculture: Applications of concepts to Mozambique. South African Journal of Economics 84(1): 20 - 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/saje.12076
Spielman, David J.; and Kennedy, Adam. 2016. Towards better metrics and policymaking for seed system development: Insights from Asia's seed industry. Agricultural Systems 147: 111 - 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.05.015
Spielman, David J.; and Ma, Xingliang. 2016. Private sector incentives and the diffusion of agricultural technology: Evidence from developing countries. Journal of Development Studies 52(5): 696 - 717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1081171
Ward, Patrick S.; Bell, Andrew R.; Parkhurst, Gregory M.; Droppelmann, Klaus; and Mapemba, Lawrence. 2016. Heterogeneous preferences and the effects of incentives in promoting conservation agriculture in Malawi. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 222: 67 - 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.02.005
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31 July - 2 August 2016, Boston, USA
AAEA annual meeting. Karen Brooks will participate.
29-30 August 2016, Canberra, Australia
Waste Not, Want Not: The Circular Economy to Food Security. The Crawford Fund’s annual conference. Karen Brooks will participate as a keynote speaker.
14-16 September 2016, Washington DC, USA
Workshop on Advanced techniques for incorporating gender in research design, data collection and analysis for economists and other quantitative social scientists. Cheryl Doss and Agnes Quisumbing will lead the workshop.
26-27 September 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
5th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE). PIM will organize a session on 'Transforming smallholder agriculture in Africa: The role of policy and governance'. A number of PIM researchers will participate in the conference.
9-10 November 2016, Washington DC, USA
PIM Science and Policy Advisory Panel (SPAP) annual meeting
12-14 December 2016, Montpellier, France
International Conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking local and global dynamics
PIM is helping plan the agenda of the conference and will sponsor several participants. Karen Brooks and Maximo Torero are members of the Scientific Committee. Read more>>
Check Upcoming Events on the PIM website for more information >>
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