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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.

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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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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

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Innovation Policy and Scaling

Iván Mauricio Hurtado Rivas

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Iván Hurtado is a Research Associate in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, and is based at the CIAT campus in Palmira, Colombia. Iván’s primary research focus is on developing and fostering the development of biofortified varieties of beans, rice, maize and cassava, and on statistical analysis. He has participated in release activities for new high-iron bean varieties in Colombia, and has worked in the field with farmers’ associations in different regions of Colombia. Iván holds a bachelor’s degree in agronomic engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and is currently enrolled in a master’s program in agricultural sciences (plant breeding).

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