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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Vartika Singh

Senior Research Analyst

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Vartika Singh is a Senior Research Analyst in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, based in New Delhi, and a Senior Research Officer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin and a guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany. Her research interest is in the nexus of food-water-energy and land. She works with partial equilibrium (PE) and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to study the integrated impact of water, energy, and climate policies toward developing sustainable transformation pathways for India in a global context. These activities constitute the core of her dissertation and are part of the CGIAR Nexus Gains Initiative. She has also worked on applied behavioral microeconomic experiments aimed at addressing barriers to sustainable intensification of agriculture as part of the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project.

Vartika holds a master’s degree in development studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hindu College, Delhi University, India.


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