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Danielle Resnick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on the political economy of agricultural policy and food systems, governance, and democratization, drawing on extensive fieldwork and policy engagement across Africa and South Asia.

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Indira Yerramareddy

Manager, Knowledge Management and Web

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Indira Yerramareddy has been with IFPRI since 2001 and has experience in strategic communications, knowledge management, and web technologies with emphasis on dissemination of research findings and best practices; bibliometrics; capacity strengthening activities; implementation of new developments in information management and innovative tools to support researchers. She has taken leadership in developing institutional policies including Information Products Open Access (IPOA) Policy; Intellectual Property Policy; Research Data Management and Open Access (RDMOA) Policy; Privacy and Cookie Policy; and Guidelines for Website Development. She has taken a lead to form the Data Governance Management Committee at IFPRI to improve the Research Data Management (RDM). She is involved in the institutional journals ranking committee. She led standardization of the processes and procedures for knowledge management and Web at IFPRI. She continues to look into the current trends and best practices to improve user engagement and ensure that institutional repositories, IFPRI.ORG, and IFPRI.INFO sites are accessible to wide range of audiences.

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Preservation of the IFPRI record: Moving 50 Years of research

2025Plummer, Leigh; Miller, Ryan; Yerramareddy, Indira
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Preservation of the IFPRI record: Moving 50 Years of research

As the International Food Policy Research Institute approaches a half-century of agricultural research, the Communications Unit has taken the opportunity to review the legacy of both our organization and our researchers. As part of this effort, the Knowledge Management team spent a year migrating over 25,000 metadata records, including about 13,000 with a PDF file attached, from an Institutional Repository (CONTENTdm) to a shared Consortial Repository (CGSpace based on DSpace). In the process, we have improved the metadata and worked to conform our records with the different standards of the shared environment and ensure continued discoverability and usability. We were also able to identify key gaps in our open access holdings and added PDF files were possible. We continue to validate the metadata and holdings, including additions of chapter records that were previously missing. Our project has led to a greater role for our team on the shared platform and we have trained other CGIAR centers on how to successfully migrate their collections.

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2025

Authors

Plummer, Leigh; Miller, Ryan; Yerramareddy, Indira

Citation

Plummer, Leigh; Miller, Ryan; and Yerramareddy, Indira. 2025. Preservation of the IFPRI record: Moving 50 Years of research. Poster presented at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175252

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Digital Libraries; Library Sciences; Information Science; Institutional Development; Knowledge and Information Systems; Knowledge Management

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English

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Open Access

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Opening data with trust: Reflections on a holistic approach to data governance at IFPRI

2020Yerramareddy, Indira; Prasai, Nilam; Saito, Erica; Plummer, Leigh; Bayeh, Mulugeta; Shang, Xinyuan; Miller, Ryan; Jung, Yunchul
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Opening data with trust: Reflections on a holistic approach to data governance at IFPRI

IFPRI’s experience building overall data governance for Research Data Management (RDM) has helped us to build trust among IFPRI staff for opening their data. We will highlight how policies, protocols and processes are equally important components for opening data in addition to infrastructure and digital repositories. The mandate of IFPRI is to provide research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. In pursuit of that mandate, IFPRI generates data ranging from household surveys to process-produced data and makes those data available and easily accessible. IFPRI has moved progressively toward full FAIR compliance beginning with publicly available datasets hosted on the website in 1999, a published data policy in 2000, establishing a data repository through Dataverse in 2007, and a Data Governance Team (DGT) in 2017. Revisions to the data policy in 2005 required researchers to publish the datasets generated during research projects within two years of data collection/finalization. However, the intention of the institute did not lead to automatic compliance by research staff. The data policy was not observed consistently, and publishing datasets remained voluntary. Researchers repeatedly expressed hesitations for opening data widely. To overcome resistance from research staff, respond to open data movements, regulations, and policies from donors and governments, and identify gaps in RDM within the institute, IFPRI established a term-limited DGT in 2017. The first undertaking of this team was launching a review of the data management practices by an external consultant. Based on the recommendations from the review, IFPRI established a permanent data governance body, Data Governance and Management Committee (DGMC). DGMC facilitates the implementation of other recommendations from the review and address staff concerns. IFPRI has established new policies, processes, incentives and systems for RDM. As a result, IFPRI has 420 well-documented open datasets, and researchers are more confident and trust the system.

Year published

2020

Authors

Yerramareddy, Indira; Prasai, Nilam; Saito, Erica; Plummer, Leigh; Bayeh, Mulugeta; Shang, Xinyuan; Miller, Ryan; Jung, Yunchul

Citation

Yerramareddy, Indira; Prasai, Nilam; Saito, Erica; Plummer, Leigh; Bayeh, Mulugeta; et al. 2020. Opening data with trust: Reflections on a holistic approach to data governance at IFPRI. Poster Presented December 16, 2020 at the AGU Fall Meeting.

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Open Data; Governance; Research Data Management; Data Repositories

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English

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Open Access

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Knowledge and data: Achieving food and nutrition security through open access

2018Yerramareddy, Indira; Babu, Suresh Chandra
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Knowledge and data: Achieving food and nutrition security through open access

Despite global reductions in hunger, malnutrition, and poverty, food and nutrition insecurity remain a global challenge. Reducing hunger and malnutrition requires evidence-based decision making, which in turn depends upon access to knowledge and data. Support is growing for “open data”—data that can be freely used, shared, and built on by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. Widespread open access to useable knowledge and data for farmers, businesses, and governments can improve the performance of food systems. However, under increasing isolationism and nationalism, there are worrisome restrictions on the free flow of knowledge and data. Ensuring open access will be critical to supporting better food systems and strengthening food and nutrition security.

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2018

Authors

Yerramareddy, Indira; Babu, Suresh Chandra

Citation

Yerramareddy, Indira; and Babu, Suresh Chandra. 2018. Knowledge and data: Achieving food and nutrition security through open access. In 2018 Global food policy report. Chapter 6. Pp. 46-53. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147326

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Data; Globalization; Economic Development; Food Policies; Agricultural Policies; Open Data; Hunger; Quality; Malnutrition; Data Quality; Nutrition; Food Security; Access to Information; Information Transfer; Food Systems; Governance; Knowledge

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English

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Open Access

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https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292970_06 Source record

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Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data
Research Post
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April 26, 2018

Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data

By Shelleka Darby, Indira Yerramareddy, and Suresh Babu

How open access to data can help close the global digital divide.

Using data to fight world hunger
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September 27, 2016

Using data to fight world hunger

By Nilam Prasai and Indira Yerramareddy

At a recent conference, IFPRI showed how it uses open data to build better nutrition policies.