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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.

IFPRI’s Research in Use

IFPRI’s has developed brief statements about the use, adoption, or influence of IFPRI’s research results by partners, stakeholders, clients, etc. These narratives describe how IFPRI’s research results are taken up by external users for use in their activities and products.

Through the Outcome Stories website, IFPRI highlights how IFPRI’s food policy research has contributed to reducing poverty and improving food security for the world’s poor in a number of key areas. With a focus on a particular country, region, or donor organization, the stories highlight the outcomes, use or influence of the IFPRI’s research programs. These stories are compiled in brochure format for specific donors or countries in IFPRI’s Outcome Stories Brochures.