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International Food Policy Research Institute

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an international research center focused on agriculture and food systems that provides research-based policy solutions to reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition throughout low- and middle-income countries in environmentally sustainable ways. For nearly 50 years, IFPRI has worked with policymakers, academics, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, development practitioners, and others to carry out research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications on food systems, economic development, and poverty reduction.

IFPRI is a Research Center of CGIAR, the world's largest international agricultural research network, and the only CGIAR center solely dedicated to food policy research. IFPRI’s research is supported by more than 185 donors, and through a multi donor trust fund for the CGIAR,  which is funded by national governments, multilateral funding and development agencies, and private foundations.

IFPRI's researchers work on a range of disciplines and topics, including agricultural economics, political economy, rural poverty and transformation, social protection, women's empowerment, food environments, digital innovations and practices, and policy analysis and modeling. The Institute collaborates with hundreds of local, regional, and national partners along the research and policy life cycle.

IFPRI's regional programs for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia, as well as its country-level programs, respond to national demands for food policy research, strengthen local capacities for research and policy analysis, and support country-led development. The Institute has around 600 employees from around the world working in over 80 countries, with more than half of its researchers based in low- and middle-income countries. In Africa, IFPRI maintains a regional office in Senegal and country programs in Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan. IFRI’s South Asia office is based in India, with country offices in Bangladesh, China, and Myanmar. The Institute also operates a country office in Papua New Guinea.

IFPRI is recognized as a leader in global development research worldwide. The Institute is ranked highly among all agricultural economics departments worldwide, in the field of African economics, and in development economics, and is listed in the top 1% of all institutions registered in Research Papers in Economics (RePEc).^[15] Independent, peer-reviewed assessments of IFPRI's impact show that the Institute's research work has benefited 270 million people worldwide, and just a few of its efforts—including work on Mexico’s Progresa social protection program, the liberalization of rice markets in Viet Nam, and Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program, among others—have been estimated to lead to more than US$1 billion in economic returns and environmental benefits. The Institute's researchers and their activities have been recognized by several prestigious organizations, including the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and the International Association of Agricultural Economists.^[18][19]  

The Institute publishes and shares its research and analysis through a range of publications, including peer-reviewed articles, books, briefs, and reports, blogs, and interactives, and different events, including conferences and seminars, among other activities. IFPRI regularly contributes to major international meetings and events, such as the 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) in 2023 in Dubai, where its researchers organized and participated in multiple events focusing on the nexus between climate change and food security and nutrition, social equity, gender equality, and resilience, among other topics. Provided by Wikipedia