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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.

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. 

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

19th Global Development Conference

World Conference Center Bonn

Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2

Bonn, Germany

October 23 to 25, 2019

  • 9:00 – 1:00 pm (Europe/Berlin)
  • 3:00 – 7:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 12:30 – 4:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 19th Global Development Conference on October 23-25, 2019. 

The conference will facilitate the research-policy interface in pursuit of the SDGs. The conference will also mark GDN’s 20th anniversary since its launch at the Global Development Conference in 1999.

Four interrelated conference themes will be discussed:

  • From research to sustainable development action: interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing, evidence brokering
  • The global and shared challenges of sustainable development: migration, climate change, health, etc.
  • Next frontier challenges: Big Data, AI, digital transformation
  • Greater local ownership and sustainability: implications for research policies and funding

Parallel Session 3.5: Greater Local Ownership and Sustainability (October 24, 2019 — 1:30pm – 3:00pm)

Greater Local Ownership and Sustainability