With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.
Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.
IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.
This episode features IFPRI’s Research Fellow Emily Schmidt, who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, shares how IFPRI researchers began engaging in Papua New Guinea, traveling through difficult terrain to collect household data and working with partners to build up capacity to do research and evidence-based policy analysis. Their results have illuminated the diverse rural livelihood strategies within the country.
