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  • Event
    Agriculture Education and Knowledge Management
    Cosponsored by IFPRI and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Conference website This conference will focus on sharing experiences on the challenges facing agricultural education and knowledge management systems. It will ...
  • Discussion Papers
    Capacity development as a research domain
    “Strengthening national capacity for designing public policies and program interventions is fundamental for achieving development goals. Yet results of capacity strengthening programs have shown mixed results in the last fifty years. ...
  • Event
    Capacity Development for Agriculture and Rural Sectors: Lessons and Future Directions
    Strengthening local capacities and institutions remains a major challenge for the effective design and implementation of agricultural and rural development programs and policies in developing countries. Sustainable capacity development is also ...
  • General Information
    Collaborative Master's Program of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics
    In 2004 IFPRI and two partners, the Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA) and the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC), launched the Collaborative Master’s Program of Science in Agricultural ...
  • Technical Guides
    Communicating Food Policy Research
    Policy researchers spend an immense amount of time designing projects, developing questionnaires, collecting and analyzing data, and formulating possible policy implications. But hard work and excellence alone do not guarantee that public policy ...
  • Staff Profile
    Elias Zerfu
    Elias Zerfu, a citizen of Ethiopia, joined IFPRI in June 2005 as a senior training and research officer with IFPRI’s Learning and Capacity Strengthening program. He is based in Addis Ababa with the ISNAR division. Prior to joining IFPRI, he ...
  • Books and Monographs
    Food security, poverty and nutrition policy analysis
    Section I: Food security policy analysis — 1. Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement — 2. Implications of technological change, post-harvest technology and technology adoption for improved food security - application ...
  • General Information
    IFPRI's Capacity-strengthening strategy
    The vision of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. Capacity strengthening is vital to realizing this vision. Capacity development contributes to agricultural growth, poverty ...
  • Books and Monographs
    Impact of science on African agriculture and food security
    Challenges facing African agriculture — The role of impact assessment in evaluating agricultural investments in Eastern and Southern Africa — Economics of wheat research in Kenya — Impact of sorghum research and development in ...
  • Books and Monographs
    Policy reforms and agriculture development in Central Asia
    The Central Asian republics – Kazakhstan, the Krygyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – are transitioning from centrally planned economies to market-oriented systems. This volume addresses the process and policy reforms these ...
  • Staff Profile
    Soonho Kim
    Soonho Kim has joined IFPRI as a Web portal specialist in MTID. She is originally from South Korea and has lived in Florida, Rome in Italy, and Fairfax, Virginia. She received a Ph.D. in Agricultural and biological engineering (major) + computer ...
  • IFPRI Briefs
    Strengthening Africa's capacity to design and implement strategies for food and nutrition security
    Among the capacity-strengthening challenges the region faces are inadequate in-country capacity, institutional weaknesses, lack of multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving, expatriates’ limited incountry experience, poor governance, ...
  • Event
    Strengthening Social Entrepreneurship
    Abstract “The Social Entrepreneurship Approach” developed by Per Pinstrup-Andersen at Cornell University in collaboration with IFPRI, Copenhagen University and Wageningen University, aims to instill in the students a social entrepreneurship ...
  • Staff Profile
    Suresh Babu
    Dr. Babu was educated at Agricultural Universities in Tamil Nadu, India (B.S. Agriculture; M.S. Agriculture) and at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (M.S. Economics and PhD Economics). Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu ...
  • Technical Guides
    Using GAMS for Agricultural Policy Analysis
    Objectives The objective of this training module is to explain how to use GAMS to construct, calibrate, and modify agricultural sector models in order to simulate the effect of alternative policies or other events affecting agricultural markets. ...
  • Technical Guides
    Using Stata for Survey Data Analysis
    Background This manual was prepared to be used as part of a one-week training course. Earlier versions of the manual have been used in training courses in various countries. This manual describes how to use Stata to store, describe, and analyze ...
  • Staff Profile
    Yuan Gao
    Yuan Gao joined the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at IFPRI as a Senior Research Assistant in August 2011. Her current research interests lie in the area of biofuel logistics and trade liberalization. She obtained a B.A. in ...