2021 Award Winners

IFPRI is proud to acknowledge Senior Research Fellows, Derek Headey and Harold Alderman for their inclusion in a special collection of highly cited articles from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Journals for their journal article, The relative caloric prices of healthy and unhealthy foods differ systematically across income levels and continents. This article, according to the latest Journal Citation Reports™ (Source: Clarivate, 2021) is an example of the impactful research found in the various ASN journals--The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Advances in Nutrition, and The Journal of Nutrition.

Derek Headey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division. 

Harold Alderman is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division.

Xinshen Diao and Kevin Chen (Chen is based in Beijing) are senior research fellows in the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSDG). Sherman Robinson is a research fellow emeritus, and Shenggen Fan is a former director general of IFPRI. 

In the first six months, the ebook was downloaded more than 10,170 times on IFPRI’s website and more than 3,500 times on RePEc. It also received more than 23,080 page views on Google Books. The ebook’s webpage has received 7,000 views from users in more than 130 countries. The analysis in the book was also promoted through numerous events, blog posts, posting on open access platforms and social media, a special newsletter, and an interactive webpage, each of which received thousands of views. 

Agnes Quisumbing, senior research fellow at IFPRI, has published peer-reviewed research widely on topics including gender, women’s empowerment, intrahousehold allocation, property rights, poverty, and economic mobility. Her work generated evidence based on primary data that rejected the idea that households could be modeled as unitary entities, contributing to the design of programs that target resources to women worldwide. She also co-developed the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), which is used in more than 50 countries worldwide to track gender equality and measure changes in the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector.

Claudia Ringler, deputy division director of IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division, has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, primarily with a focus on global water and food security. More recently her work has also focused on gender, nutrition, climate change, and energy. She is also the deputy director of the CGIAR Program on Water, Land, and Ecosystems and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee on the Global Water Systems Project.

Johan Swinnen, director general of IFPRI since January 2020 and the global director of the CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group, has published extensively on agricultural and food policies, international development, political economy, institutional reforms, trade, and global value chains. He served as IAAE president-elect, president, and past president from 2009 to 2018. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the AAEA 2020 Quality of Communications Award, the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book of the Year 2019, and honorary doctorates from the University of Göttingen and the Slovak University of Agriculture.

lemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Daniel Gilligan, and John Hoddinott’s publication "Impact evaluation of improved nutrition through integrated basic social services and social cash transfer pilot program (IN-SCT) in Oromia and SNNP Regions, Ethiopia” is the Best of UNICEF Research 2020 Finalist, selected as one of the top 10 research publications funded by UNICEF in 2020.

Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse is a senior research fellow and Program leader for Ethiopia in the Development Strategy and Governance Division. 

Daniel Gilligan is Deputy Division Director in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division. His research addresses the economics of household investments in childhood nutrition and education in developing countries, as well as the impact and cost-effectiveness of social protection and agricultural and nutrition interventions. Much of his research is based on experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations.

John Hoddinott is a Nonresident Fellow in the Poverty Health and Nutrition Division. He is also H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition Economics and Policy, Cornell University. He was formerly a deputy director of the Poverty Health and Nutrition Division of IFPRI.

Jemimah Njuki, IFPRI’s Director for Africa, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2021 by Apolitical, the peer-to-peer learning platform for government. In 2020, Dr. Njuki was named by the UN Food Systems Special Envoy as Custodian for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. She has worked for more than 20 years in gender equality and women’s empowerment in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining IFPRI, she led the Growth and Economic Opportunities program at Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Women in Agriculture Program at CARE USA, and the Poverty, Gender, and Impact Program at ILRI. She is the Convener of the East and Southern Africa Gender and Livelihoods Network, and the founding Editor of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, a journal that promotes the voices of scientists from the global south working on gender equality.  Apolitical's platform is used by public servants and policymakers in more than 170 countries to connect with each other and to find original and curated content about what’s working in policymaking around the world.