Consulting Services
ECOREC provides research-based consultancy services. Namely, policy advice follows from the findings of in-depth research. Areas of the services include agricultural policy, research and technology policies, and policies aimed to reduce poverty and food insecurity. Some of the selected topics for the consultancy are:
- Economy-wide effects of investment in reproductive health: general equilibrium approach
- Food security and poverty effects of alternative investment options in palm oil
- Drought, ex-ante/ex-post coping strategies and vulnerability
- Macro data frameworks and their use in general equilibrium policy analysis
- Organization and implementation of tailor-made training program on research methodology and project cycle
- Impact of structural and sector-wide policies on poverty and food security
- Monitoring and evaluation of impact of agricultural policy, research and technology
- Interaction of structural and sector-wide policies with agriculture and the environment
- Role of research and technology policies in promoting innovations
- Industrial policy, institutional arrangements and direction of technological change
- Institutional changes and organizational linkages in innovation systems
- Capacity development for learning and knowledge flow in innovation systems
- Institutional and organizational mapping of agricultural sector
- Role of new technologies (i.e. ICT & biotechnology) in reforming national agricultural systems
- Interaction between disease (i.e. HIV/AIDS and malaria) and agricultural productivity
- Priority setting in health and agricultural research
- Globalization, trade, food safety and food security
- Enlargement of the European Union, regulatory impact analysis, sector-wide institutional analysis