Crp 2

CRP 2 focuses on a number of highly relevant topics related to the CGIAR‘s systemlevel objectives of food security and poverty reduction. These include global policies; investment strategies; strategic foresight and futures scenarios; system-wide priority setting; macroeconomic and international trade; institutional innovations to improve market performance, governance, and social protection policies. Many of these complement the other CRPs by being cross-country, multi-commodity, cross-sectoral, or cross-ecosystem. The proposal presents a comprehensive program around three major themes: (1) policies and investments for pro-poor growth, (2) enabling institutions and governance for the poor and (3) value chains linking smallholders to markets. The three themes each have several sub-themes, and the sub-themes together include over 60 proposed research activities. The CRP is a very ambitious and wideranging proposal in terms of scope of inquiry. Much valuable work central to the CGIAR‘s core business will be carried out under this CRP, and, as such, it constitutes a critical component of the CGIAR program portfolio.