Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN)

Advancing African research leadership to promote resilience and agriculture-led growth

The Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) research program flips the traditional model of research collaborations led from US universities. Feed the Future ALL-IN researchers at African institutions lead these collaborations, leveraging their local knowledge, skills and ideas to build actionable evidence for promoting resilience and empowering rural families and communities to share in inclusive agricultural growth. Feed the Future ALL-IN was established by USAID as a partnership between the MRR Innovation Lab at the University of California, Davis and the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) in Nairobi, Kenya. Learn more

Projects

Digital Innovations to Improve Market Access for Horticultural Produce in Malawi

This ALL-IN project is testing information and communications technology (ICT) interventions that create a virtual marketplace to connect horticultural sellers to buyers and a platform that provides agricultural extension services to farmers remotely.

The Distributional Impacts of Large-Scale Land Transactions in Ethiopia

This ALL-IN project is measuring the impacts of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia and identifying the communities and households who benefit and those who does not.

Adapting to Climate Risk with Mutual Weather-Index Crop Insurance in Nigeria

This Feed the Future ALL-IN research team is developing and testing a Sharia-compliant takaful mutual insurance contract that triggers payments in the event that there is a weather anomaly.

Digital Literacy, Output Market Access, and Demand for Rural e-commerce in Nigeria

In Nigeria, a Feed the Future ALL-IN research team is providing digital literacy training so farmers can use their mobile phones to access e-commerce to sell their harvest.

Linking Financial and Agricultural Innovations for Women Farmers’ Resilience in Nigeria

This Feed the Future ALL-IN project is testing interlinked credit, index insurance and cultivation of stress-tolerant maize varieties to strengthen women’s productivity, income and resilience.

Principal Investigators

Emmanuel Abokyi

Senior Management Consultant, Ghana Institute Of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)

Samuel Adams

Dean, GIMPA School of Public Service and Governance

Frank Agyire-Tettey

Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Ghana

Charles Amoatey

Senior Lecturer, Ghana Institute Of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)

Khadijat Amolegbe

Researcher and Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, University of Ilorin

Research Mentors

Nargiza Ludgate

Assistant Scholar, University of Florida International Center Office for Global Research Engagement

Nicole Mason-Wardell

Associate Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University

Bradford Mills

Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech

Mario Miranda

Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University

Christopher Udry

Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

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Feed the Future ALL-IN Co-Directors

David Ameyaw

President, International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED)

Michael Carter

Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

ALL-IN News

Building on Good Investments in Africa’s Development Research Community

Q&A: Increasing Productivity with Credit, Insurance and Stress-Tolerant Seeds

Three Lessons on Capacity Strengthening with Graduate Student Assistants in Uganda

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED)

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED), established in 2016 with support from USAID, is a leading voice for development policy across Sub-Saharan Africa. ICED bridges the gap between innovative Africa-based research and policy to scale local solutions to the challenges of development. ICED manages ALL-IN research subcontracts and awards including monitoring and reporting. The ICED Advisory Board determines the direction of ALL-IN research. Learn more