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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.


Augustine Iraoya

Research Analyst

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Augustine Iraoya is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. His research focuses on trade, migration, multidimensional poverty, income diversification, rural livelihoods, and food systems.

Prior to joining IFPRI, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) where he worked closely with government, local, national, and regional partners on evidence-based research to inform policymaking. He also worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria where he oversaw undergraduate students’ field studies and taught microeconomics.

He holds a master’s in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.