A program overview given by PIM's Director Karen Brooks at FAO in April 2014.

1. Policies,
Institutions,
and Markets
(PIM)
Karen Brooks, Director of the CGIAR
Research Program on Policies,
Institutions, and Markets.
4 April, 2014
FAO, Rome

2. What is PIM?
One of 16 cross-cutting
research programs of
CGIAR
Applied social science
research with focus on
impact
Intensive program of
research activities
produced noteworthy
publications and
discussion papers.
Young program; first
3 year cycle
Partnerships:
Research
Implementation
Outreach
Funding
About USD90
million annually;
Many funding sources
We lead action-oriented research to inform decisions on food and
agricultural policies that will better serve the interests of poor producers and
consumers, both men and women.

3. Our partners within CGIAR
Just joined

4. Our major implementation partners
National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems
NGOs, CBOs
Implementation partners are our pathway to
impact.

5. PIM’s flagship projects:
F1: Foresight Modeling
F2: Science Policy and Incentives for
Innovation
F3: Adoption of Technology and Sustainable
Intensification
F4: Policy and Public Expenditure
F5: Value Chains
F6: Social Protection
F7: Natural Resource Property Regimes
F8: Crosscutting Gender, Partnerships, and
Capacity Building
Key current areas of focus

7. Status in 2013
Flagship 1:
Foresight
Modeling
• Modeling team nearly completed or advanced characterization
of 20 priority technologies.
• Progress achieved in developing new methods to assess
management practices and systemic interactions.
• The PNAS paper “Climate change effects on agriculture:
Economic responses to biophysical shocks” (in collaboration
with CCAFS) received the highest level of attention, as
measured by Altmetrics, of all IFPRI publications in 2013.
Key improvements to IMPACT model:
• updating the base year to 2005;
• including all CGIAR mandated crops;
• increasing the spatial resolution to the level of individual country;
• including water basins within countries as units;
• enhancing treatment of water and hydrological management of weather
and climate shocks.

8. Flagship 2:
Science Policy
and Incentives
for Innovation
• The Agricultural Science and Technology
Indicators Initiative (ASTI) finalized data
collection and analysis in African countries.
Agricultural R&D capacity and investments
have increased since 2008, although
underinvestment, volatile flows, and aging of
the scientific cadre remain problematical.
• The Program on Biosafety Systems (PBS)
released ten publications in 2013, including
several books addressing socio-economic
impacts of genetically modified crops. PBS
continued to make progress on the use of the
Netmap tool for problem solving, and
completed an activity with the African
Agriculture Technology Foundation to inform
their efforts on public outreach.
Status in 2013

9. Flagship 3:
Adoption of
Technology
and
Sustainable
Intensification
• PIM work led by CIAT based on the R4D multi-
stakeholder learning platforms continued in Latin
America, Africa, and Asia. The workshop “New
business models: building inclusive and sustainable
trading relationships between buyers and small scale
producers in Central America”(Nicaragua, Sept) kicked
off a two year learning cycle with the member
organizations of the Regional Learning Alliance of
Central America.
• The HarvestChoice team coordinated a CGIAR-wide
initiative on geo-referencing CRP research
activities, which included cataloging the CGIAR
technologies and developing a prototype tool to
visualize the data (country-level mapping of CRPs;
activity-level mapping of PIM) (see illustrations on the
following pages)
Status in 2013

12. Flagship 4:
Policy and
Public
Expenditure
• The Arab Spatial open-access
database and interactive mapping tool
launched in February 2013 displays
data on more than 150 indicators of
development in the Middle East and
North Africa.
• An ICRISAT project on women’s
empowerment in rural India builds on
existing individual and household panel
data for 6 villages from 1975 to 2011
and 18 villages from 2009 to 2011. In
2013, with methodological input from
PIM’s gender leader, ICRISAT collected
a new panel to examine changes over
time in time use, nutrition, and related
institutional arrangements.
Status in 2013

13. Flagship 5:
Value Chains
• The Value Chains Knowledge
Clearinghouse, an initiative led by
PIM with inputs from Bioversity,
CIAT, CIP, ICRAF, ICRISAT, IFPRI,
IITA, and ILRI, provides a
comprehensive, easily accessible
repository of research methods
and best practices.
• CIP produced five policy briefs and
2 journal articles on results of the
Participatory Market Chain
Approach (PMCA) in the Andes,
Uganda, and Indonesia.
Status in 2013

14. Flagship 6:
Social
Protection
• The work of the IFPRI social
protection team comparing the
effectiveness of different forms of
transfers (cash, food, and
vouchers), and especially
evidence from a randomized
experiment in northern Ecuador,
was cited in The Economist –
conveying the finding that
vouchers are more effective than
the two other types of transfers in
that context
Status in 2013

15. Flagship 7:
Natural
Resource
Property
Regimes
• CAPRi’s sourcebook “Resources,
Rights, and Cooperation: A
Sourcebook on Property Rights and
Collective Action for Sustainable
Development” was translated into
Chinese, adding to the English and
Spanish versions already available.
• As part of a PIM-funded activity led by Bioversity, a
common framework for monitoring agrobiodiversity has
been developed and discussed at the experts meeting in
Huancayo, Peru in November. This framework was used
by RTB to prepare an in situ conservation flagship project
for roots, tubers, and bananas, and is expected to form
the basis for developing a global network for monitoring
agricultural biodiversity.
Status in 2013

16. Flagship 8:
Crosscutting
Gender,
Partnerships,
and Capacity
Building
• The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
Resource Center released an instructional guide on how
to implement, calculate, and analyze the index.
In addition to that, it published an
analytical case study for Ghana,
demonstrating how the index can
be used to understand linkages
between women’s empowerment
and key outcomes, and
supplementary resource materials
including a video tutorial on how to
implement the time-use module. A
Spanish version of the WEAI
presentation is now also available.
Status in 2013

17. Areas for further collaboration?
• Adoption of technology; systematic tracking
• Extension/advisory services; what models work well
under what circumstances
• Value chains: FAO’s lessons of experience
− Include in website of tools and approaches?
− Systematic overview?
• Agricultural science (e.g., Science Agenda for African
Agriculture)
• Post-harvest losses; rigorous measurement
• Social protection and insurance; instruments that
work well
• Youth employment: stronger analytical underpinning
for interventions

18. Relevant dates for coordination
Late April 2014:
draft proposal for
2015-16
Summer 2014:
elaboration of
specific work;
identification of
partners
Early 2016:
design of program
for 2017-2020

19. Thank You!
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