The overall goal of the global Food Security Policy Innovation Lab (FSP) program is to promote inclusive agricultural productivity growth, better nutritional outcomes, and strengthened livelihood resilience through enhanced policy environments. The program will contribute to this by providing better information on key issues to facilitate informed debate on policy formulation and planning at country, regional and global levels, and by strengthening national policy systems.  
As part of this program, the consortium partners (Michigan State University, the International Policy Research Institute and the University of Pretoria) agreed to provide training to strengthen the abilities of both media personnel and policy analysts to communicate agricultural, food security and nutrition policy issues meaningfully to different interest groups. Helping the media to convey technical and policy information on important topics through sound reporting is expected to contribute to leveraging policy change.  