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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.


Olufemi Popoola

Research Analyst

Bio

Olufemi Adebola Popoola is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is an agricultural economist with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry through his experience as a research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER). He is skilled in research design, data collection and analysis, report writing, and research-policy linkages. His research interests are in the areas of food security and climate change, technology and innovation studies, and impact evaluation.

He holds both a masters’ and bachelor’s in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ibadan and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta respectively. He is a member of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).