Suresh Babu POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Food Policy Research and Capacity Development in Eurasia Co-Organized by the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS), World Bank Group, and IFPRI DEC 2, 2020 - 07:30 AM TO 09:00 AM EST

1. Role of Case Studies Method in
Food Policy Capacity Building
Suresh Babu, IFPRI, Washington, DC, USA
ECSF-WORLD BANK- IFPRI WEBINAR
Food Policy Research and Capacity Development in Eurasia
December 2, 2020

2. Why Case Study Approach
 Business schools
 Public Policy schools
 Best practices research
 Cornell Food Policy Case studies
 Social Entrepreneurship approach to Food Policy analysis
 Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Developing Capacity to Reduce
Poverty and Hunger (ifpri.org)
 University of Maryland experiment (Professor Prabhakar Tamboli)
 American University, Washington DC (Professor Emily Levitt )
 Case Study Approach in ECFS

3. Case Study Approach in ECFS
 Collaborative research – ECFS- IFPRI- World Bank
 Policy Communication – annual events
 Capacity development for country level Impact
 How to link policy research to Policy analysis
 How to transfer cross country learning
 How to identify emerging policy issues
 How to generate evidence and fill the knowledge gaps
 Building capacity and credibility of local researchers

4. Cornell Food Policy Case Studies
 Per Pinstrup-Andersen – Joachim von
Braun – Arie Kuyvenhoven
 Derrill Watson
 A series of case studies
 Global focus
 Teaching material
 Effectively used
 Open source

5. American University Washington D.C
 At the Post-Graduate level
 Rural Development
 Individual case studies
 Thematic issues related to their
expertise
 Country level expertise
 Midcareer professionals
 Ready for policy analysis and advice

6. IFPRI - University of Maryland Approach
https://www.ifpri.org/blog/ifpri-university-maryland-collaboration-builds-long-term-capacity-reducing-
hunger-and
 Global Food Systems
 Multidisciplinary – students – faculty
 Students become Social Entrepreneurs
 Team effort by students – full semester
 Country level strategy development
 Food security, nutrition, sustainability
 20 years of IFPRI –UMD collaboration

7. Case Study Approach in ECFS
• Country level researchers
• Competitive selection
• Emerging policy issues
• Country and policy relevance
• Connected to evidence gap for
policy making

8. Analysis of Three Rounds of
ECFS Proposals
Relevance of
the problems
identified
Thematic issues
addressed by
the case studies
Food security
Markets
Value chains
Trade
Processing

9. Translating Case Studies into Local
Capacities
 Short run
• National policy system
• National regulatory systems
 Long run
• National curriculum
• Updating the case studies
• Funding of the case study approach
• Research on refining the Social Entrepreneurship to food policy