Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA)
Price Analysis Tools and Guidance from the LRP Learning Alliance
When the US Congress authorized the pilot Local and Regional Procurement Project in the 2008 Farm Bill, several NGOs began using MIFIRA and sought to improve market analysis capacity. This turned into the LRP Learning Alliance, a collaboration among Cornell University, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Land O'Lakes, and World Vision, that has subsequently expanded to include CARE, Fabretto Children’s Foundation, International Relief and Development, and the United Methodist Committee on Relief. The purpose of the Alliance is to coordinate monitoring of price data to ensure that LRP projects do not negatively affect local and regional markets, and to coordinate data analysis among the various LRP projects. It also actively works to collaborate among groups and disseminate information about LRP. More details are available at http://sites.google.com/site/lrplearningalliance/
The recommended citation is Lentz, Erin C. (2011) "Notes on collecting and analyzing price data for the Local and Regional Procurement Learning Alliance."
LRP Learning Alliance Price Collection Guidance and Background Information
- LRP Price Collection Training Overview
- LRP Price Collection Technical Guidance
- LRP Monitoring and Analyzing Data
- Presentations
- Introduction to LRP
- LRP Global Framework Overview
- Introduction to Markets
- Introduction to Prices
- Market Data - Terms and Definitions
- Market Data - Assessing Secondary Data
- Market Data - Secondary Data
- Market Data - Market Selection Exercise
- Market Data - Market Selection
- Market Data - Trader Selection
- Trader selection - Primary data checklist
- Market Data - Data Quality Control
- Introduction to Esoko Database
- LRP Price Analysis - How Prices Change
- LRP Price Analysis - Approaches to Analysis
- Data Collection Forms
- LRP Price Survey Registration
- LRP Price Survey Post-registration
- Form 1 Market Registration
- Form 2 Trader Registration
- Form 3 Price Data Collection Support Sheet
- Form 3 Price Data Collection
- Form 4 Optional Questions
- Form 5 USDA LRP Final Budget Template
- Form 6 Procurement Monitoring
- Form 7 Distribution and Cash
- Form 7 Distribution Sheet Notes
- Form 8 Historical Price Data Notes
- Form 8 Historical Price Data