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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.
researcher spotlight
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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IFPRI is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.
Christine Mwangi is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in IFPRI’s Kenya office. Her research interests include food systems, seed systems, and technology and innovations in agriculture as well as their effect on agricultural productivity and food security. She is also knowledgeable in the use of contingent valuation and choice experiments in valuation of non-marketed goods. Before joining IFPRI, she worked with the Kula Vyema Centre of Food Economics, Brightpath Consulting, and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) as a Research Assistant studying ways to transform different agrifood system elements to provide healthier diets, food security, and livelihood improvement. Christine holds a master’s degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness Economics.