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Who we are

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. 

Where we work

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Where we work

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

World Water Week 2021

Hosted by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)

August 23 to 27, 2021

  • 9:00 – 5:30 pm (America/New_York)
  • 3:00 – 11:30 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 3:00 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in World Water Week (WWW), the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues.

Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute, World Water Week 2021 theme is Building Resilience Faster, with a focus on concrete solutions to the world’s greatest water-related challenges, starting with the climate crisis and including water scarcity, food security, health, biodiversity, and impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.  

Productive uses of Energy in Ethiopia’s Agriculture (August 24, 2021 – 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM)

Accelerating Food and Water Security: Role of the UNFSS (August 24, 2021 – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM)

  • Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, CGIAR- IFPRI