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Who we are

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.

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

Where we work

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Where we work

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

2011 Award Winners

AWARDS

Date

Person(s)

Awards

Jul 25

Gerald Nelson

Receive the Enduring Quality Award for the journal article “Do Roads Cause Deforestation? Using Satellite Images in Econometric Analysis of Land Use” during the Agricultural and Applied Agricultural Economics Association and North Eastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Joint Annual Meeting.

Oct 5

Claudia Ringler

The journal article “Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia” by Deressa, T.T., R.M. Hassan, and C. Ringler won the 2011 Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa award for best publication in a professional journal.

Dec 5

Tingju Zhu

Received the Editors’ Choice Award, announced during the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, for a paper he co-authored on water resources research.