Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI; USAID-funded).
The innovation lab is focused on building human and institutional capacity for capacity applied research with policy impact in developing countries. The research is done in a highly collaborative way with local partners, with mechanisms in place to ensure that their view of priorities (for themselves, their organization, and their country) feature very highly in the collaborative definition of research and outreach activities. Activities take place across multiple countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
My role as director involves extensive engagement with USAID on the direction and focus of lab activities and with our partners across the world in the research and engagement that they take on.
Collaborative research by the lab includes food environments and diets in urban- and peri-urban areas of Kenya; the structure and evolution of healthy food wholesaling in Tanzania and Senegal; drivers of resilience in Uganda; the impacts of sugarcane production under alternative institutional arrangements on food security and livelihoods in Uganda; the impacts of COVID-19 on access to food and incomes across five African countries; the impacts of COVID-19 on food trade patterns in Southeast Asia; and other topics.
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Project Contact:
- David Tschirley
- Agricultural Food and Resource Economics
- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- tschirle@msu.edu
Partners
- Cornell University
- International Food Policy Research Institute
Report of calendar year 2021 activity.