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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.

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Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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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.

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Since its founding in 1975, IFPRI has worked closely with hundreds of partners, including its sister CGIAR centers, around the world to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI’s research has informed important policy, program, and investment decisions and had a positive impact on the lives of many people in low- and middle-income countries. IFPRI is also looking ahead to 2050, with a focus on ensuring that high-quality evidence remains at the forefront of national, regional, and global development policy processes in an increasingly complex world.

We are proud to showcase the importance of food policy research as we mark our 50th anniversary with a series of outputs and events:

50th Anniversary Global Food Policy Report special edition

Our flagship Global Food Policy Report will be released on May 28, 2025, highlighting key lessons, impacts, and forward-looking analysis from food policy research for sustainable, equitable food systems. With chapters from IFPRI researchers, colleagues, and partners, the Report will examine the evidence built over the past 50 years and identify critical research directions to inform strategies and policies that will achieve key development outcomes by 2050.

Measuring Our Impact

IFPRI is committed to providing research solutions that make a difference in people’s lives. Building on past assessments, we have released a new external impact assessment on the past 50 years of our work. We will also continue to add to our Making a Difference blog, which highlights stories of IFPRI’s impact through research around the world.

New IFPRI Strategy

Building on IFPRI’s unique approach to research and strengths, we are developing a forward-looking strategy to identify priority research areas and operationalize them through on-the-ground partnerships and outreach. Informed by the Global Food Policy Report and stakeholder consultations, these priorities will be backed by high-quality research and co-developed and implemented with governments, NGOs, and networks within the Global South

Faces of IFPRI

“Faces of IFPRI” series features IFPRI colleagues around the world, showcasing the diversity of talent, geographies, and research interests across the Institute. See below the latest two episodes, and more on our YouTube channel !

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50 Years of Innovation

Over 50 years, IFPRI researchers—together with partners around the world—have developed many groundbreaking innovations to strengthen and support evolving food systems. This selection offers a glimpse into this work. Click through and learn more from our posts on LinkedIn

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Taking stock: Impacts of 50 years of policy research at IFPRI
Hazell, Peter B. R.; Place, Frank

Taking stock: Impacts of 50 years of policy research at IFPRI

As the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) marks its 50th anniversary, the Institute and its key stakeholders pause to take stock of what is known about its policy influence and impact over the years. What does the available evidence tell us about IFPRI’s achievements as an international research institution? Have its activities contributed to better policy and investment decisions by governments, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and others involved in the economic and social development of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)? This report builds on a stocktaking paper published for IFPRI’s 40th anniversary, whose findings were generally favorable, by using more recent external sources of evidence to provide updated answers to these questions. It synthesizes bibliometric and download data, as well as a series of independently conducted impact assessment studies of many of IFPRI’s research programs and projects. This task has been facilitated by the availability of 40 such evaluations, commissioned by IFPRI, the CGIAR Research Programs on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and on Policies, Institutions, and Markets, or project donors. Additionally, other agencies commissioned several evaluations of specific country and regional policies that IFPRI helped influence. This wealth of independent assessments is rare for a policy research institution. Moreover, IFPRI’s commissioning or co-commissioning of 36 impact assessments over 25 years demonstrates a serious commitment to an impact evaluation culture and a willingness to learn from its experiences.

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2025

Authors

Hazell, Peter B. R.; Place, Frank

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Hazell, Peter B. R.; and Place, Frank. 2025. Taking stock: Impacts of 50 years of policy research at IFPRI. Independent Impact Assessment Report 48. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177103

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Impact Assessment; Hunger; Policy Analysis; Poverty; Research

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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IFPRI Making a difference
International Food Policy Research Institute

IFPRI Making a difference

From the 2025 update: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reaches millions of people through its mission to provide research-based policy solutions to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods; contribute to empowerment for all; and promote sustainable, climate-resilient food systems. Together with partners, IFPRI generates needed evidence for global, regional, and national policies, investments, programs, and institutions that contribute to poverty reduction and help ensure that all people have access to safe, sufficient, nutritious, and sustainably produced food. IFPRI is a Research Center of CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural innovation network, and is the only CGIAR Center solely dedicated to food policy research. Through multisectoral research and engagement with stakeholders, IFPRI also informs effective policies, programs, investments, and institutions that contribute to productive livelihoods and sustainable, resilient, and equitable agriculture and food systems. The pathway from research to impact can be direct or, at times, more difficult to trace. IFPRI commissions independent, peer-reviewed assessments of our work and engages researchers in internally validating our activities. This brochure highlights some of these stories to show how IFPRI’s research is making a difference for people and the planet. With this work, we are advancing toward our vision of a sustainable world free from poverty and malnutrition. From the 2021 update: IFPRI is reaching the lives of millions of people through its contribution to policies and programs that reduce poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. This looks at how a selection of IFPRI’s research is contributing to better outcomes for food and nutrition security and poverty reduction.

Year published

2025

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International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2025. IFPRI Making a difference. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143005

Keywords

Agricultural Research; Agricultural Policies; Nutrition; Food Security; Poverty

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English

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Open Access

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IFPRI’s first 10 years
Farrar, Curtis

IFPRI’s first 10 years

Curtis Farrar surveys the initial ten years of IFPRI, beginning with the genesis of the new institute, the early years, its entry into the CGIAR System, its growth in the CGIAR. He looks at the findings and recommendations of IFPRI’s First External Program Review and finally describes IFPRI in its tenth year. The author utilized, as source material, documents of the CGIAR, principally the verbatim and summary reports of CGIAR meetings, reports of TAC meetings, and files of supporting documents in each case, in the CGIAR Secretariat Library at the World Bank. In addition, he used the official files of IFPRI, including minutes and supporting documentation for meetings of the Board of Trustees and its committees, and records and documentation for external program reviews.

Year published

2000

Authors

Farrar, Curtis

Citation

Farrar, Curtis. 2000. IFPRI’s first 10 years. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156028

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Cgiar; Food Policies; Research Institutions

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English

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Open Access

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Within five years, [Rwanda achieved] a 12 percent reduction in poverty … because we focused on where the majority of people were … When IFPRI does these studies, it provides evidence that move us forward and help our countries understand where to put our efforts.

Agnes Kalibata

President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
April 22, 2024

IFPRI helped build the organizational capacity of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) to undertake policy and additional research design, and implement some of the most impactful projects that it has actually undertaken to date.

Khalid Bomba

Founding CEO, Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
November 6, 2023

Look how far we’ve come. Thanks to IFPRI, and other partners, we now know so much more about what needs to be done to improve agriculture, food security, and nutrition.

Melinda French Gates

Co-chair, Board Member, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
November 18, 2015

[IFPRI has had a] strong presence in Bangladesh, conducting demand-driven food and agricultural policy research and providing evidence-based policy support to the government.

Matia Chowdhury

Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Agriculture, Bangladesh
November 18, 2015