FOOD POLICY RESEARCH CAPACITY INDICATORS
Local capacity to conduct food policy research and analysis is essential for developing evidence-based policies and facilitating their adoption. However, development of capacity indicators in the past has been thwarted by a lack of data and the spread of policy capacity over a wide range of institutions within a country. In 2011, IFPRI started to system- atically document the food policy research capac- ity in 25 selected developing countries, in an effort to develop indicators that eventually can measure a country’s domestic capacity to design, implement, and evaluate policies in the food, agriculture, and natural resource sectors. Tis study defines any socioeconomic and policy-related research in the food, agriculture, and natural resource sectors as food policy research. At the current stage, two indicators measure
food policy research capacity at the country level. Te first indicator records the availability of quali- fied human resources for food policy research per one million people living in rural areas. (See results for 2010 in Table 4.) Tis indicator is based on the number of full-time PhD-equivalent research- ers involved in food policy research in the key ministries and academic and research organiza- tions in a country. To calculate this number, the total number of PhD-equivalent researchers—the sum of researchers with a PhD, a master’s degree (weighted as half of a PhD) and a bachelor’s degree
(weighted as one-quarter of a PhD) is multiplied by the average proportion of time devoted to food policy research activities. Te second indicator measures the number of
international journal articles per full-time PhD- equivalent researcher for a country. Tis indica- tor is based on the number of international journal articles produced by the researchers in the sur- veyed organizations of a country between 2006 and 2010. To obtain this indicator, the journal arti- cles in the Web of Science and Econ Lit databases related to socioeconomic and food policy issues were searched against the names of organizations. Te total number of publications, which is the sum of the number of journal articles published by all surveyed organizations on socioeconomic and policy issues, is divided by the total number of full- time PhD-equivalent researchers in a country. Tis indicator reflects the quality dimension of domes- tic food policy research capacity. Tis preliminary set of data is the beginning
of a continuing initiative that ultimately aims to generate a set of food policy capacity indica- tors that can be easily monitored by IFPRI over time and effectively used by decisionmakers and other stakeholders for designing capacity develop- ment interventions.
Contacts: Suresh Babu or Paul Dorosh Email:
s.babu@
cgiar.org or
p.dorosh@
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