Subtheme 8.2:Food andWater Safety
The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) project wrapped up in 2010, culminating in a high-level research meeting in Thailand in October 2010, held in conjunction with the 71st APHCA (Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific) Executive Committee Meeting. For the 2010 IMCAPI meeting, the project team was requested to report initial findings at a learning workshop sponsored by the World Bank. The project‘s methodology is also being adopted by some of the WB operations units for the analysis of economic and livelihood impacts on the poor. The WB has also asked the project team to develop a handbook on how to integrate epidemiology and economic analysis, using the lessons learned from the project to support the WB's One Health approach to evaluating zoonotic diseases in Central Asia. The project resulted in numerous papers, nearly 20 of which currently are in progress. Additionally, a videowas produced for the October conference to sensitize decisionmakers to the project‘s findings.
The project‘s findings have had wide international and country-level support. Indonesia now explicitly recognizes the livelihood concerns of poor poultry sector stakeholders in its current policy review (and the Indonesian government has itself recently pointed out that this project was one of the first to focus on poor stakeholder-related issues in animal disease control). The Ethiopian and Kenyan governments extended and paid for part of the project‘s household survey work to better understand behavioural constraints on the poor associated with adoption of risk mitigation strategies. Similarly, the Nigerian government consulted with the project on additional research into the livelihood impact of revamping live bird markets and improving the compensation mechanism. The Nigerian government also recently requested the research team to undertake an evaluation of the impact of the government‘s HPAI control efforts on people‘s livelihoods.
The Aflacontrol team has completed the first comprehensive sample of aflatoxin prevalence levels (~10,000 samples) from various points along the Kenyan maize and Malian groundnut value chains. The project has received wide attention from the media, particularly in Kenya, which has aided in engaging the Kenyan government in discussions about aflacontrol strategies. The team has been collaborating with the Gates Ag team and providing valuable data and feedback to inform the process to develop a broad consortium to comprehensively address aflatoxin contamination in Sub-Saharan Africa. The team participated in three conventions in 2010 with USDA and USAID, with a fourth meeting forthcoming in February 2011.
PLANS FOR 2011
Future plans for MTID will focus on the division‘s ―Golden Products,‖ a series of projects that best exemplify the research priorities of the division and of CRP 2. These projects represent research innovations that will improve institutions, promote market efficiency, reduce transaction costs for poor producers and consumers, and help smallholder farmers achieve better access to markets. The MTID ―Golden Products‖ consist of:
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AGRODEP –AfricanGrowth andDevelopment PolicyModelingConsortium
APovertyModule of theMIRAGEModel of theWorld Economy to look at distributional impacts of trade Institutional Innovations toReduce PriceVolatility Aspirations and Well-being Outcomes in Ethiopia
ANewApproach toWeather Insurance: SimpleWeather Securities
Using Stochastic Profit FrontierAnalysis toConstructTypologies ofRuralMicro-Regions Markets forHigh-Value Commodities
Working together formarket access: strengthening rural producer organizations in Sub-SaharanAfrican ContractingOut of Poverty
Aflacontrol: Improving the Lives of People inAfrica
2010 Internal Program Review-Markets, Trade and Institutions
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