We are committed to meaningful two-way cross-disciplinary and in-country partnerships to generate knowledge and translate evidence. For research partnerships, we will create cross-disciplinary teams within and across the physical and social sciences; blend expertise from different geographies and risk domains with expertise in sub-Saharan African agriculture, and partner with African researchers in both the cross-disciplinary and cross-context cases. For translation partnerships, we will connect with organizations that implement programming focused on food systems and policy makers who set priorities for national or sub-national food systems to understand their learning priorities, co-create research proposals to fill information gaps, and make data and evidence available for decision-making.

Over the course of CRIFS, we will:

Build a partner network and establish collaboration modalities for research and dissemination that enable two-way capacity strengthening
Strengthen information flows between (a) policymaker and SSP priorities to researchers to inform research and (b) researcher to implementer to SSP information flows to encourage uptake of research results
Increase the utility of data to focus on priorities and correlates
Understand and implement collaborative decision-making strategies among researchers, policymakers and implementers
Publish both technical and policy-oriented outputs to communicate research, policy, and investment findings and to share applied methods, tools, and data

To discuss research or translation partnerships, contact Leigh Anderson, eparcla@uw.edu.