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.
Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.
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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.
The project Using Commercial Microwave Links (CML) to Estimate Rainfalls, co-led by Senior Research Fellow Yanyan Liu of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division, received a scale-up grant from CGIAR’s signature digital innovation process, the Inspire Challenge. Last year, the project was a recipient of an Inspire Challenge grant to support their initial research. This year’s scale-up grants were given to support the pilots with the greatest scaling and impact potential and strengthen their cases for attracting investment capital. The grant was presented at the CGIAR´s 2019 BIG DATA convention on October 18, 2019.
The Ethiopian Support Strategy Program (ESSP) was recognized for ESSP’s nearly decade-long partnership with the Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA) at the 17th Annual International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy. The award, presented to Paul Dorosh, director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division, highlighted ESSP’s ongoing work organizing trainings at the federal and regional levels, co-organizing conferences, providing professional grants for young researchers, and offering financial and technical support to graduate students.
Marie Ruel, division director of the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division (PHND) has received the Kellogg Prize for Lifetime Achievements in International Nutrition from the American Society of Nutrition. This award honors Ruel’s lifetime achievement (almost 30 years) in international nutrition research focused on policies and programs to alleviate food insecurity and malnutrition in developing countries. Through program evaluation and implementation science research, Ruel assesses the role that multi-sectoral, nutrition-sensitive programs play in reducing maternal and child malnutrition around the world. She has published extensively on maternal and child nutrition, urban livelihoods, food security and nutrition, and nutrition-sensitive programs and policies. The award presentation took place at the Nutrition 2019 conference in Baltimore, MD, USA. The award is supported by the Kellogg Company. Watch presentation video.
Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, and Susan Godlonton were awarded the 2018 AARES-Wiley Blackwell Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Award for Best Paper for their paper, “Measuring Post-harvest losses at the farm level in Malawi.” The award presentation took place at the 63rd Annual AARES Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Kate Ambler is a research fellow and Alan de Brauw is a senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division. Susan Godlonton is an Assistant Professor at Williams College.
Authors thank the Department of International Development of the United Kingdom for the main financial support behind the data collection and primary intervention, and the CGIAR Research Program on Policy, Institutions, and Markets for financial support.
Rob Vos, Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division has been awarded an honorary appointment as Distinguished Research Professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO) in Ecuador. This appointment is in recognition of Vos’s distinguished research and contributions to international development and poverty reduction, in general, and Ecuador in particular.
