Our Work

Fast Facts

Director General:
Shenggen Fan

Headquarters:
2033 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006, U.S.A.

Date Established:
1975

Other Links:
Board of Trustees
Offices in other countries
IFPRI's Strategy
IFPRI Strategic Priorities Brochure
IFPRI is supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Divisions

  • Director General's Office
    The Director General’s Office (DGO) coordinates IFPRI operations, as well as a number of institutional programmatic and management activities, including: 2020 Vision Initiative Partnership, Impact & Capacity Strengthening ...
  • Development Strategy and Governance
    To overcome poverty, hunger, environmental degradation, unemployment and human diseases, many developing countries will need to achieve faster and more sustained pro-poor economic growth. Good governance plays an essential role in reaching these ...
  • Environment and Production Technology
    Research in the Environment and Production Technology Division focuses on meeting food production needs in developing countries in ways that are beneficial to the poor and do not degrade the natural resource base. This involves identifying the ...
  • Markets, Trade and Institutions
    Inadequate policies, institutions, and rural infrastructure lead to agricultural markets that do not function efficiently. As a consequence, the poor pay more for their food and receive less for their produce. To enhance the efficiency of ...
  • Poverty, Health, and Nutrition
    Producing plentiful, high-quality food in a sustainable fashion is the vital first step toward food and nutrition security. But production is not enough to attain optimum nutrition for all. All people must have access to the right quantity and ...
  • Communications
    IFPRI’s institutional strategy rests on three pillars: research, capacity strengthening, and policy communication. Through these three activities IFPRI provides international public goods and maintains a dialogue with key stakeholders on ...
  • Partnership, Impact and Capacity Strengthening Unit
    As IFPRI’s mandate makes clear, in order for the Institute’s well-communicated, evidence-based research to inform sound food policy decisions and have a lasting effect on the ground, the capacity to implement those policies and replicate research ...