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Theme
4. Socioeconomics and Policy
Socioeconomic and policy research provides gender, market, cultural and end-user
perspectives that can help in promoting the adoption of new technologies and
enhance the impact and benefits of ICARDA’s research. Particular emphasis
is placed on participatory research methods for problem identification, technology
evaluation and selection that complement the formal analytical methods already
in use. The strategy is to build upon the knowledge, perspectives, and innovative
capacities of farmers and local communities in finding solutions to production
and resource-management problems.
As part of its new strategy, ICARDA is devoting increased attention to natural
resource management, especially water, formal methods of resource and environmental
economics, and farmers’ participatory research to understand how resource
degradation, productivity, and conservation are related. Operational guidelines
on resource use for farmers, pastoralists, extensionists and policy makers
are being identified. Development of local institutions will be investigated
and institutional innovations that mitigate natural resource degradation and
enhance collective action will be promoted.
The following projects
are in operation under this theme:
Project 4.1. Socioeconomics
of Natural Resource Management in Dry Areas
Project 4.2. Socioeconomics of Agricultural Production Systems in Dry Areas
Project 4.3. Policy and Public Management Research in West Asia and North
Africa
