Meeting the complex challenge of reducing poverty and ending hunger and malnutrition requires multifaceted economic, political, and technological approaches. These multifaceted approaches are particularly important now given the sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years. These increases have raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries and in some countries - civil unrest. IFPRI's research has been and will continue to be used to develop effective and coherent policy recommendations for governments and others to help the most vulnerable populations cope with the drastic hikes in their food bills and to help build a more resilient food and agricultural system. Food policy research has an essential role to play in providing research-based information to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the short-, medium-, and long-terms.
The vision of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. This vision is based on the human right to adequate food and freedom from hunger, and recognition of the dignity inherent in all human beings. It is a vision of a world where every person has secure access to sufficient and safe food to sustain a healthy and productive life, and where food-related policy decisions are made transparently and include the participation of consumers and producers.
IFPRI's mission is to provide policy solutions that reduce poverty and cut hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is conscious of the fact that it is part of the many global, regional, and national institutions and actors that pursue the above vision, and thus aims to make its contributions in partnership with others. Its mission flows from the mission of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), "To achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through scientific research and research-related activities in the fields of agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries, policy, and natural resources management." Two key premises underlie IFPRI's mission: first, that sound and appropriate local, national, and international public policies are essential to achieving sustainable food security and nutritional improvement; and, second, that research and the dissemination of itsresults are critical inputs into the process of raising the quality of food policy debate and formulating sound and appropriate policies.
The 2009-11 medium-term plan is available for download in PDF format as a complete document or in sections.
- Full Report
- Overview
- Project Portfolio
- Annexes and Financing Plan