IFPRI at a Glance: Improving Food Security Worldwide
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IFPRI at a Glance presentation by Paul Dorosh, IFPRI. Egypt Strategy Support Program Launch, March 1 2016, Cairo
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IFPRI at a Glance: Improving Food Security Worldwide
- 1. IFPRI at a Glance Paul Dorosh Egypt Strategy Support Program Launch MARCH 1, 2016 | CAIRO, EGYPT
- 2. Vision A world free of hunger and malnutrition Mission To provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition Day-to-day work • Conducting and communicating research • Enhancing partnerships • Building partners’ capacity IFPRI is an independent research institute and a member of the CGIAR Consortium. About IFPRI
- 3. Strategic research areas Ensuring sustainable food production Promoting healthy food systems Improving markets and trade Transforming agriculture Building resilience Strengthening institutions and governance Gender Vision A world free of hunger and malnutrition Mission: To provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition IFPRI. 2013. IFPRI Strategy 2013-2018: Food Policy Research in a Time of Unprecedented Challenges. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
- 4. Where IFPRI works IFPRI. 2016. IFPRI at a Glance. IFPRI, Washington, DC. 52%48% Staff (01/2016) 574
- 5. Our work addresses several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) directly … Link to SDGs … and contributes to many others. End poverty in all its forms everywhere End hunger, achieve food security, and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Reduce inequality within and among countries Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
- 6. Link to Egypt’s SDS “The Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS): Egypt 2030 aims at creating a modern, open, democratic, productive, and happy society.” “The SDS deals with the main challenges that affect sustainable development, namely related to physical resources; energy, land, water, and environment, human development resources; population, health, and education, inadequate governance system, and disincentivized innovation.”
- 7. A few big stories over the past 40 years Debunking myths on Green Revolution • Smallholders benefit: Yield growth = 3% / yr (1961-85) • Agricultural growth multipliers: Each $1 earned on-farm additional $1 to local economy Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) • Influenced funding decisions of institutions • Kenya and Tanzania: Value of use of ASTI data = ~US$ 3 million Pro-poor public investments in China (1998-2007) • Increased spending on agric. R&D, irrigation and education • Growth / yr: Ag R&D = 9% | Irrigation = 3% | Rural education = 12% Opening rice markets in Vietnam (1995-97) • Led to improved rural income and reduced poverty • Relaxation of trade restrictions benefits = US$ 61 million
- 8. A few big stories over the past 40 years Intrahousehold allocation • 1st to show that intrahousehold dynamics matter • Doubling women’s share of cash income = 2% rise in budget share of food eaten within household Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) • Adopted for monitoring Feed-the-Future programs in 19 countries • Bangladesh: Evaluation led to increased USAID funding for gender work CCT programs in Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua • Improved design and expansion of programs • PROGRESA, Mexico: Median value of benefits = $992/student Country Strategy Support Programs • Strengthening research and policymaking capacities • 8 country offices| 3 regional offices | 30% researchers in developing countries
- 9. Quality of research is top priority #2 #2 #6 #9 #13 RePEc Ranking RePEc = Research Papers in Economics (as of 01/2016) Agricultural economics Africa economics Development economics MENA economics Environmental economics 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015 ISI Citations (per year) ~4,200 citation in 2015 Thomson Reuters, Web of Science (as of 01/2016, non-cumulative)
- 10. IFPRI’s work on Egypt 1980s Food subsidies and economic distribution (with INP, MoE, MoSHT, and MoA; funded by USAID and Ford Fnd.) 1990s Food subsidy and agricultural market reforms (with MoTS and MoALR; funded by USAID) 2000s Malnutrition and food subsidies Public spending and poverty reduction (with API; funded by EC) Trade liberalization and poverty (funded by IFAD) 2010s Food and nutrition security(with CAPMAS and WFP; funded by IFAD and CGIAR-PIM) Egypt SSP
- 11. Aims: To generate policy-relevant evidence and to contribute to building national capacity to raise incomes of the rural poor and to improve food and nutrition security in Egypt Initial funding from USAID Program components (under USAID funding): 1) Impact evaluation of USAID-funded programs in Upper Egypt on agriculture-nutrition-health linkages 2) Capacity building of national partners on program M&E 3) Policy advisory and actionable research Egypt SSP
- 12. ًشكرا
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to the audience Word of thanks to USAID mission director and USAID Egypt for generous support
- CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation. It is carried out by 15 Centers, that are members of the CGIAR Consortium, in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector (copied from website). IFPRI and ICARDA are two CGIAR sister centers that are collaborating on many projects and in several countries. As part of this CGIAR-wide collaboration, ICARDA is hosting IFPRI’s activities in Egypt. I am looking forward to this collaboration with ICARDA, and particularly Dr. Mahmoud Solh and Dr. Alaa Hamwieh, who will give their introductory remarks later. IFPRI is an independent research institute that is funded on a project basis by many different national and international partners. Many representatives of these partners are in the room today and I would like to thank you all for your organization’s continued trust and support. Egypt SSP is supported by USAID and we are also looking forward to working with many of you in the room towards a food-secure Egypt.
- Six strategic research areas and gender—a cross-cutting theme
- IFPRI staff: more women than men 3 regional offices, 8 project office; headquarters in Washington, DC CSSP = Country Strategy Support Program USAID has provided fundamental and substantial financial support to most CSSPs. Thanks! Most recent country project office: Egypt SSP office
- Promoting sustainable food production: Ex. 1 Improving markets and trade: Ex. 2 Setting priorities for public investments: Ex. 3 and Ex. 4
- Investing in social protection: Ex. 5 Closing the gender gap: Ex. 6 and Ex. 7 Country strategy support: Ex. 8 A fraction of IFPRI’s work has had large impacts: Benefits of only a few big projects exceed $1 billion already covers total spending from 1976-2014 Even higher benefits with cross-country spillovers and IPGs
- Peer-reviewed publications IFPRI will host a research priority setting day tomorrow (March 2) to systematically discuss potential research areas for Egypt. You are welcome to participate. Clemens will talk more about it.
- INP = Institute of National Planning MoE = Ministry of Economy (at that time) MoSHT = Ministry of Supply and Home Trade; later: MoTS= Ministry of Trade and Supply; today: MoSIT = Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade MoA = Ministry of Agriculture; later & today: MoALR = Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation CAPMAS = Central Agency of Public Mobilization And Statistics API = Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait Long history of IFPRI’s work on Egypt (by main projects) In 1981, the Government of Egypt asked IFPRI to study the effectiveness of its food subsidy system and to look at ways to reduce costs without jeopardizing the welfare of the poor. Some reforms to reduce the costs of the food subsidy system were undertaken in the 1980s and early 1990s. Because many policymakers were concerned that further efforts to cut costs and reform the system might threaten the food security of those who need it most, the Government of Egypt again asked IFPRI to conduct food policy research in collaboration with Egypt’s MoALR and MoTS) in 1996. Most of IFPRI’s work on Egypt was carried out during these two projects. IFPRI had staff posted in Cairo during these projects (1980s: e.g., Harold Alderman and Joachim von Braun; 1990s: e.g. Akhter Ahmed, Howdy Bouis, Hans Loefgren). Not only research, but IFPRI also helped to conduct several surveys, incl. the Egyptian Integrated Household Survey (EIHS) in 1997 and the Egypt Wheat Producers Survey (EWPS) in 1998. More recently, in 2013-14, IFPRI helped strengthening analytical capacities related to food and nutrition security indicators and construction of social accounting matrices—both with CAPMAS. To build on this work, now Egypt SSP.
- One of the objectives of the meeting today is to strengthen partnerships with stakeholders in Egypt, and we are looking forward to interacting and working with all of you. To systematically discuss potential research areas for Egypt, IFPRI will host a research priority setting workshop tomorrow here at the Conrad hotel (March 2). You are welcome to participate, please talk to our staff here or send an email to ifpri-egypt@cigar.org for more information. Clemens will talk more about the Egypt SSP in his inauguration presentation later.
- Shukraan (Thank you)