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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.


Dellings Phiri

Country Manager

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Bio

Dellings Phiri is the Country Manager for the HarvestPlus Malawi Program. He has worked in the agriculture sector for 20 years, with a focus on seeds.  Before joining HarvestPlus, he worked for several years with Seed Co Mw Ltd as Managing Director, and for Monsanto Malawi (now Bayer Malawi) as Marketing Manager. He has also worked with the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) as Marketing Manager responsible for creating market linkages for farmers’ produce. Dellings holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Heriot Watt University, Scotland, and a bachelor’s of Commerce (Business Administration) degree from the University of Malawi.


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