FOOD POLICY TOOLS AND INDICATORS
To develop and implement effective food policies, decisionmakers need resources, institutional capacity, political will, solid evidence, and timely information, among other things. As part of IFPRI’s mission to find sus- tainable ways to reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition, the Insti- tute develops and shares global public goods, including tools and indicators intended to help decisionmakers address real-life questions—ranging from models and networks to datasets and indexes. Te tools include interactive ways to measure or conceptualize data; the indicators are standardized mea- surements that signify thresholds for certain aspects of development. While the content that can be extracted from these knowledge products is useful in and of itself, its practical purposes are enhanced and beter understood by the various online networks that IFPRI co-facilitates that connect users to each other and provide a platform for discussion. Tese resources also provide benchmarks for monitoring and evaluating policies and programs to assess what works, what doesn’t, and where improvements can be made.
Food Policy Tools
AGRODEP: AFRICAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY MODELING CONSORTIUM
As African countries strive to increase agricul- tural productivity and atain greater economic growth, the policy reform process is fueling the demand for policy-relevant research. Meeting this demand requires strengthened local capacities in economic modeling, targeted partnerships, and broadened linkages to the ongoing policy debate. Te African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium was devel- oped to help meet this demand. AGRODEP’s goals are to mobilize a critical mass of modeling experts within Africa’s policy research and analysis com- munity, broaden access to innovative research
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methodologies, and facilitate partnerships with the global research community. AGRODEP aims to position African experts—
rather than external actors—to take a leading role in the study of strategic development questions and the broader agricultural growth and policy debates facing African countries. Started in 2010 by IFPRI and several partners, AGRODEP is building a net- work of African researchers with both the skills and the modeling and data infrastructure to lead this effort. AGRODEP shares core economic models; establishes a central online database for statistical, economic, and geospatial data; and combines a net- work of experts with a community of practitioners. All of this allows researchers to tackle major policy questions facing African countries strategically. Te AGRODEP website, launched in Octo-
ber 2011, serves as a portal for economic data and models and offers related resources, such
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