IFPRI will devote increasing attention to micronutrient deficiencies, especially in its role as co-leader (along with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture) of HarvestPlus, the CGIAR Biofortification Challenge Program, which breeds micronutrientdense staple crops and promotes their consumption by poor people. As retail food businesses increasingly reach out to poor people, new research will also examine food quality for poor people in different environments and at different stages in the life cycle. Additional new research will address the dietary changes that accompany economic growth, globalization and urbanization. As incomes and food availability increase, diets are not necessarily improving in quality. New diets increasingly include energy-dense (and micronutrient-poor) foods, which lead to obesity even among resource-constrained households, with adverse chronic health outcomes, an issue that IFPRI has started to address in its research.

• HarvestPlus
  Leader: Howarth Bouis
• Diet Quality and Health of the Poor
  Leader: Corinna Hawkes
• Food and Water Safety
  Leaders: Clare Narrod
  • Avian Influenza
    Leader: Clare Narrod