The document discusses potential areas of partnership between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to address IFAD's needs through IFPRI's expertise in agricultural marketing research. Key areas identified include global and domestic trade issues, value chain analysis, market infrastructure and institutions, food safety, and cross-cutting analytical methods. Next steps proposed are bilateral discussions with IFAD country program managers, country visits, and revised work plans.

1. Markets access and the IFAD-IFPRI Partnership Nick Minot and Maximo Torero 24 March 2008 IFAD, Rome

2. Objective of planning session: Identify overlap between IFPRI expertise and IFAD needs IFAD needs IFPRI expertise

7. Vision for domestic marketing B Larger overall number of smallholders with marketable surpluses – i.e. movement from net buyers to net sellers 1 Improved state of food security driven by productivity improvements (higher marketable yields) and crop income diversity Small farmers able to participate in growing high-value market channels e.g. for supermarkets, processors, and exports Access to trading and marketing mechanisms including storage, credit, and transportation Enabling policy and regulatory environments, including support for smallholders and trade openness 2 3 4 5

11. Example 2: High-value agricultural marketing in Indonesia (ACIAR) Growth in supermarkets and processing Higher quality standards and minimum volumes raise question whether smallholders will be excluded Commodity focus: Shallots, chillies, mangoes, mangosteen, and shrimp Methods: Farm surveys to understand role and constraints of smallholders, trader interviews to explore quality requirements, and consumer surveys to understand quality requirements and determinants of shift to supermarkets Expected outputs: Improved understanding of 1) rate of shift toward supermarkets, 2) implications for smallholders, and 3) policies and institutions to maintain smallholder participation in high-value agriculture 1 2 3 4

18. Cross-cutting methods (2): IFPRI Mobile Experimental Economics Laboratory (IMEEL) Purpose Implementation of field experiments to understand behavior of the poor in rural and urban areas, especially in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Benefits of experiments Experiments grant a high degree of control over the manner in which data are generated. They enable us to establish counterfactual scenarios that tend to be otherwise non-existent. Experiments are different from surveys in that they use simple games to observe actual decisions. Equipment 12 laptops, 30 PDAs, solar panels and batteries as back-up power sources What next? Projects * Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI): Pro-poor policy options for controlling HPAI * Contract Farming: Innovative contracts for linking farmers to markets and reducing poverty