Policy Analysis

Research Design

ROA phase II is designed to draw policy implications and deliver policy guidance and tools for policy-makers and development communities to take best advantage of non-market roles of agriculture. In pursuing such a normative and prescriptive approach, ROA phase II determined to concentrate on designing incentive measures for environmental services and policy reforms for maximizing poverty alleviation and food security roles of agriculture. The rationale for this focused scope is that one of the greatest challenges for the global community in the 21st century is to feed a growing world population that will reach 8 billion by 2030 while preserving environmental benefits and minimizing environmental costs from agriculture. As such, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability in agriculture are the most policy relevant roles of agriculture that form two sides of the same coin.

To review or download work plans for environmental services and poverty alleviation and food security modules, see:

Environmental services

• Work plan
  
• Analytical framework for country case studies

Poverty alleviation and food security

• Work plan
• Analytical framework for country case studies