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GLOBAL RESEARCH PROJECT (GRP): Supporting Policy Research to Inform Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia GDN ANNUAL REPORT 2012 28 GRANTEES (for the financial year 2012) TEAM LEADER AFFILIATION COUNTRY TITLE OF STUDY BEING UNDERTAKEN AS PER THE FIVE KEY PROJECT RESEARCH TOPICS GRANT (USD) Project Geography (South Asia) Lahore University of Ali Hasanain Pakistan Irrigation and water use efficiency 20,000 Management Sciences Madras School of K.S. Kavikumar Economics, Chennai Bangladesh Institute of Mustafa K. Mujeri Development Studies, Dhaka Institute of Policy Parakrama Samaratunga Studies of Sri Lanka, Colombo Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Vijay Paul Sharma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Project Geography (Sub-Saharan Africa) Johann Kirsten Ogutu A.C. Akello Department of Agricultural Economics, Managing agricultural commercialization Extension and South Africa for inclusive growth Rural Development, University of Pretoria Department of Addressing long-term challenges to food Agricultural Economics, Kenya security and rural livelihoods University of Nairobi Department of Agricultural Economics 20,000 20,000 Reuben M.J. Kadigi and Agribusiness, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro Tanzania Irrigation and water use efficiency 20,000 Saa Dittoh University of Improving the effectiveness, efficiency Development Studies, Ghana and sustainability of fertilizer use Tamale Foundation for 20,000 T. Ademola Oyejide Economics Education, Ibadan Nigeria Agricultural pricing and public procurement 20,000 RESEARCH ASSISTANT Project Geographies (South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa) Genet Zinabou University of Oxford United Kingdom Girish Nath Bahal Khondoker Tanveer Haider Sourovi De Uttara Balakrishnan University of Cambridge University of Oxford University of Oxford India Bangladesh Sri Lanka India United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom Addressing long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods Improving the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of fertilizer use Agricultural pricing and public procurement Managing agricultural commercialization for inclusive growth Irrigation and water use efficiency Addressing long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods Improving the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of fertilizer use Managing agricultural commercialization for inclusive growth United States Yale University Agricultural pricing and public procurement 35,000 of America NOTE: The total payment made to the 10 Team Leaders for their services under this project is US$ 40,000. Their services commenced on 1 June 2011 and end on 30 December 2012. 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000
SHOWCASE: PROJECT RESEARCHER SOUROVI DE Three times state-level elocution champion, A-level (international) debate adjudicator, chief editor of the first multimedia literary magazine in a premium institute in Delhi University, and recipient of The Dhirubhai Ambani Academic Excellence Award,* Sourovi De has always been an achiever. Currently working as an Assistant Consultant at Oxford Policy Management, UK, for Sourovi, getting the opportunity to collaborate for a year with seven academicians spread across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America was the biggest advantage of participating in a GDN Global Research Project (GRP). Sourovi is a Research Assistant in the‘Supporting Policy Research to Inform Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia’ GRP. She has researched with the team on the ‘Managing Agricultural Commercialization for Inclusive Growth in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa’study. Although not actively involved in policymaking decisions in her home country of India, “The impact of the GDN project has had strong, second-degree effects on our future research work,”insists Sourovi. For her, the most meaningful aspect of the research was the fact that it brought together the rare confluence of researchers from across geographies with whom she could interact, share best practices and learn from. Furthermore, the GRP particularly gave Southern academicians a research platform that is rarely afforded to them. What’s more, GDN’s emphasis on research communications by persuading researchers and academicians to create distinct versions of their work for different audiences to aid greater outreach “gave us the much-needed ‘nudge’ that researchers require,”points out Sourovi. “GDN’s emphasis on research communications is a much-needed impetus for researchers” Sourovi De Research Assistant, GDN Agricultural Policy Global Research Project Sourovi’s project focuses on what policy conditions could help smallholder farmers benefit from agricultural commercialization in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; a particularly relevant topic for India. Through many long discussions with senior researchers and experts on this project, as well as her own literature review of the topic, Sourovi reflects that she learnt to separate the substantive debates and arguments from the sweeping stylized facts about agriculture in developing countries, often fed to us in copious doses by polemics from the parliament and popular media. “This skill to discern will definitely stand me in good stead because a disturbing number of issues in development economics – be it health, education, development aid, or political institutions – are rife with such unreserved, unqualified and low-hanging fruits without much heed paid to the actual, debilitating factors, which constrain economic agents from implementing these magic bullets,”she explains. Additionally,“Other than pulling me out of a sanitized environment of stylized facts, the project fulfilled my ambition of getting my work published. Both our papers (on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa) will be part of GDN’s Policy Paper series,”beams Sourovi. *The Award is given to three students in India each year on the basis of their scores in the All Indian Senior School Examination (XII standard). GDN ANNUAL REPORT 2012 29
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