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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. 

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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.

Episode 1: Playing Games to Save Water

How do you get people to cooperate in conserving shared water resources?

The first episode features IFPRI’s Senior Research Fellow, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Foundation for Ecological Security’s Chief Executive, Jagdeesh Rao, who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, share their novel approach to forging cooperation between communities to conserve water. In the process, they decided to use something that is just as fun as it sounds—experimental games.

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By Ruth Meinzen-Dick

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