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 Dear colleagues and friends,
Happy New Year!
I invite you to have a look at selected 2017 highlights of the PIM program.
The final quarter of 2017 was, as always, full of events. On November 14-16, we held our annual PIM management and advisory meeting, during which we were pleased to meet the members of the new PIM Independent Steering Committee.
On December 10-13, IFPRI trade policy experts working with PIM’s Flagship 3 team participated in the Trade and Sustainable Development Symposium side event and book launch at the Eleventh WTO Ministerial in Buenos Aires (more here).
On December 5, our colleagues in the International Potato Center (CIP) jointly with Peru’s Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion organized the workshop “Social protection programs and economic inclusion interventions in rural areas in Peru”, which featured research supported by PIM under Flagship 4: Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience. Another workshop, co-convened by CIP and Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI), aimed at building capacity for measuring and analyzing postharvest losses.
On November 20, I moderated the book launch event for the new volume “The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?”. The book examines how large-scale, domestic food-based transfer programs in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and the United States, have evolved over time. The editors of the volume include a team drawn from the World Bank, IFPRI, and PIM’s Flagship 4.
CIFOR in collaboration with the German development agency (GIZ) organized the workshop “Restoring Forests, Restoring Communities”, featuring research supported by PIM’s Flagship 5. The PIM land experts took an active part in the 2017 Land Policy Conference “The Africa We Want: Achieving socioeconomic transformation through inclusive and equitable access to land by the youth.” PIM and CIFOR co-organized a workshop “Common benefits: Is community tenure facilitating investment in the commons for inclusive growth?” in Washington, D.C. This research was also featured at the session “Opportunities and lessons learned to enhance and accelerate recognition of community land rights” at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, Germany.
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, which is housed within PIM and serves all CGIAR Centers and programs, hosted its first Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop on December 5-8.
Finally, we held two PIM webinars (direct links to the recordings below). The 2017 series of PIM webinars has been well received, and we will share the 2018 webinar schedule shortly.
You will find more updates from PIM and each of our research flagships below.
Thanks for reading the newsletter!
Karen Brooks,
PIM Director
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Select highlights from the first year of PIM's Phase 2.
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PIM symposium on Rural Transformation in the 21st Century at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2018: Call for papers
Deadline for submission of abstracts extended till 15 January 2018.
This pre-conference symposium is convened by PIM as the Second Annual Social Science Conference of CGIAR. Contributions are invited from CGIAR scientists, research partners, and IAAE members.
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What’s driving the growth of agricultural mechanization in Africa
Agricultural mechanization is playing an increasingly important role in Africa’s rural transformation. Recent IFPRI/PIM research in Ghana addresses the relationship of agricultural mechanization and economic transformation and suggests how government policies can support this process. READ MORE
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Cash or food transfers combined with behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence: evidence from Bangladesh
Nearly 1 in 3 adult women worldwide have experienced some form of intimate partner violence (IPV). IFPRI study in Bangladesh finds that cash or food transfers combined with intensive behavior change communication reduce IPV even after transfers end. READ MORE
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Restoring forest landscapes: A question of community rights
A workshop on this topic was held in Bonn, Germany, on 3 November, arranged by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the German development agency, GIZ, and featuring research supported by PIM's Flagship 5 under the project “Governing Shared Landscapes.” READ MORE
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ASTI successes: country initiatives in ownership and institutionalization
from Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)
Several countries are taking initiative with ASTI data collection and outreach - institutionalizing the data collection process, disseminating the results, and embedding the data in national policy and decision-making platforms to maximize their use and accessibility. Recent examples from India, Colombia, and Ghana in this blog. READ MORE
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Celebrating International Day of Rural Women
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How CGIAR improves the livelihoods of rural women
To celebrate this year's International Day of Rural Women (October 15), the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research collected stories from across CGIAR to illustrate how gender research in agricultural and natural resource domains contributes to improving the lives of rural women. READ MORE
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Women’s land rights need to be at heart of tenure reforms to help eradicate poverty
by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Cheryl Doss, and Sophie Theis
Why are land rights so important to rural women? Quite simply, land is the most valuable asset among many rural people and households, as land is the foundation of rural livelihoods. READ MORE
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Examining factors that influence adoption of agricultural technology by men and women: the case of potato
by Claudia Babini
Women today are the hidden face of agriculture, playing a fundamental role from food production to commercialization, and yet not only do they not have the same access to resources and technological innovations, but often the technologies are not designed considering women’s needs and conditions. READ MORE
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Book: The 1.5 billion people question: Food, vouchers, or cash transfers?
The book examines if and how large-scale, domestic food-based programs in six countries, including Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and United States evolved over time. The editors of the volume include a team drawn from the World Bank, IFPRI, and PIM (See book launch event page and video)
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Book: Agricultural trade interests and challenges at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires: A Southern Cone perspective
The new book edited by Valeria Piñeiro and Martín Piñeiro focuses on presenting some of the main themes that are pending in the WTO negotiations, with an emphasis on the views and perspectives of the Southern Cone countries. (The book is a joint project by IFPRI, Group of Producing Countries from the Southern Cone (GPS), Institute for International Agricultural Negotiations Foundation (INAI), Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)). READ MORE
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Journal article: Women in agriculture: Four myths
This paper by Cheryl Doss (University of Oxford), Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, and Sophie Theis (IFPRI) published in Global Food Security inspects four pervasive gender myths: 1) Women account for 70% of the world's poor; 2) Women produce 60–80% of the world's food; 3) Women own 1% of the world's land; and 4) Women are better stewards of the environment. READ MORE
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Journal article: Agricultural labour productivity and industrialisation: Lessons for Africa
Using data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center’s Africa Sector Database, Xinshen Diao (IFPRI), Margaret McMillan (Tufts University), and Samuel Wangwe (ESRF,Tanzania) show that manufacturing employment and its share in total employment is growing in a number of African countries. Authors find that increases in agricultural productivity have been associated with reductions in the agricultural employment share and increases in income and the demand for locally produced products.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejx034
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Journal article: Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management
Blake Ratner (WorldFish), Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI), Jon Hellin (CIMMYT), Everisto Mapedza (IWMI), Jon Unruh (McGill University), Wouter Veening (Institute for Environmental Security), Eric Haglund (IFPRI), Candace May (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and Carl Bruch (ELI) focus on whether and how natural resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and mitigate conflict and synthesize evidence from cases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.768
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Journal article: Using cognitive interviewing to improve the WEAI survey instruments
The purpose of cognitive interviewing is to systematically identify and analyze sources of response error in surveys, and to use that information to improve the quality and accuracy of survey instruments. The new paper by Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, and Chiara Kovarik published in Agri-Gender journal describes the cognitive interviews undertaken in Bangladesh and Uganda in 2014 as part of the second round of pilots intended to refine the original version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (WEAI). READ MORE
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Brief: Gender matters in Forest Landscape Restoration: A framework for design and evaluation
Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance wellbeing in deforested and degraded landscapes. This CIFOR/FTA/PIM brief provides a framework and set of recommendations for enhancing gender equality and women’s rights in and through FLR initiatives. READ MORE
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Updates from PIM flagships
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26-28 February 2018, IFPRI HQ, Washington D.C., USA
Revisiting the agenda on NRM research and impact assessment. Workshop co-organized by PIM and the Standing Panel for Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the CGIAR's ISPC (by invitation only)
19-23 March 2018, The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA
Land and Poverty Conference 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World. Colleagues from Bioversity, CIFOR, ICARDA, ICRISAT, IFPRI, ILRI, and IWMI working under PIM's Flagship 5: Governance of Natural Resources will attend the conference.
28 July 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Low-Income, Late-Transforming Countries. PIM pre-conference symposium as part of the International Conference of Agricultural Economists, annual flagship conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). Call for papers>>
Check Upcoming Events on the PIM website >>
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If you'd like to make a contribution to the next newsletter or share your thoughts about this issue, please contact us at crp-pim@cgiar.org
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