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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.

Global Food Security Symposium 2019

From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future

DC

The National Press Club

529 14th Street NW

Washington, United States

March 20 to 21, 2019

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 2:00 – 10:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 2:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is partnering with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs for the 2019 symposium under the theme,  “From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future”.

By 2050, over one half of the world’s population could be at risk due to stress on water resources. How will we grow an adequate quantity—and quality—of food to feed and nourish a rapidly growing, urbanizing world in the face of increasing water insecurity?

IFPRI Participant:

  • Mark W. Rosegrant, Research Fellow Emeritus, IFPRI, Principal Author of From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future Report