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Methods
Aligned with CRP2 efforts, use agricultural market data (e.g., from the FAO‐based Agricultural
Market Information System, AMIS) and international remote sensing data to iteratively improve
maize market outlooks and forecasts and link them with energy markets, policy monitoring, price
transmission from world to domestic markets and food security assessments. Explore the relations
between biofuel and food production and the resilience of maize production to price increase and
volatility.
Advanced geospatial analysis and wealth ranking tools for targeting the resource‐poor and different
gender groups, selectively applying a new generation of partial (e.g. multi‐market models, economic
surplus, IMPACT model) and general equilibrium approaches. These will allow iterative adaptation of
the MAIZE agenda and a better understanding of the drivers of change (climate change, demand for
livestock products, and effects on maize demand for food, feed, and other uses).
Novel tools for market and value‐chain analysis and methods for integrated economic, social and
environmental impact assessment (e.g. bio‐economic modeling, propensity score matching and
double difference methods). These will evaluate ex‐post the impacts on poverty, food security,
gender and the environment.
Qualitative tools—stakeholder analysis, outcome mapping, gender analysis and focus group
discussions—to complement impact studies.
Outstanding innovations
Increased understanding of market behavior that goes beyond agriculture production and includes
the energy sector, financial markets, and risk management approaches, versus purely econometric
supply‐demand estimates
Application of a new generation of partial and general equilibrium approaches for ex‐ante analysis
of future outcomes, market prices, supply‐and‐demand projections, and understanding impacts of
emerging drivers (climate change, income growth, urbanization, derived demand for maize as feed
and other uses).
Explicit focus on gender effects.
Institutional innovations that improve access to information, technologies and markets, as well as
facilitating adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.
Strategic systems analysis at the regional or farming systems levels, by obtaining data from panels,
geospatial analysis and wealth ranking and linking them with market and value chain analysis.
Integrated economic, social, and environmental impact assessment.
Strategic Initiative 2: Sustainable intensification and income opportunities for the poor
Genesis with partners and justification
This Initiative rose from partners’ strong request for an integrated R&D approach between maize‐based
interventions and those of other crops and livestock for making a rapid and pronounced impact on
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