In the face of growing water scarcity, IFPRI’s water research aims to reduce poverty by increasing overall water-use efficiency in developing countries, while improving water quality, reducing irrigated land degradation, and increasing food security and access to water for the poor. Research results provide policymakers with options to address growing water scarcity and water quality challenges through more efficient water allocation and better water management across sectors and within the agriculture sector.
IFPRI’s water research is unique because of its joint assessments of water supply and demand together with food outcomes, nonagricultural water demands, and environmental outcomes at the local, basin, national, and global levels. IFPRI also facilitates interdisciplinary water research related to property rights to water, downscaling global climate information to a local context, and impacts on runoff and crop outcomes. IFPRI’s water research is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 6.
Water insecurity is associated with greater food insecurity and lower dietary diversity: panel data from sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Remoteness, farm production, and dietary diversity in Nepal
Closing the gendered energy technology gap in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study
The economywide impacts of increasing water security through policies on agricultural production: The case of rice and sugarcane in Pakistan
The contributions of Public Works in watershed rehabilitation and irrigation in Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance supported Productive Safety Net Program areas of Ethiopia to resilience and nutrition
Modeling the economywide effects of water and energy interventions in the face of climate change
Breakeven Installed Costs of Off-Grid Solar PV System for Groundwater Irrigation
Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2018-2019
Feed the Future Bangladesh Phase One Zone of Influence (ZOI) Endline Survey, 2018-2019
US Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) Baseline Survey, 2018-2019
Sustainably Intensified Production Systems Impact on Nutrition (SIPSIN) Round 1, Ethiopia
Sustainably Intensified Production Systems Impact on Nutrition (SIPSIN) Round 2, Ethiopia
Guest Post Financing Viet Nam’s flood fighting efforts
- IFPRI Program/Country EventMay, 15 2024
What does climate change mean for the future of agriculture? Insights from the IMPACT modeling system
- IFPRI at External EventSep, 20 - 22 2023
Tropentag 2023
- Series/Special EventMay, 24 2023
Middle East and North Africa Discussion of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses
- IFPRI at External EventMar, 22 2023
UN 2023 Water Conference
- IFPRI Policy SeminarMar, 20 2023
Water & SDGs - Downscaling WATer relevant SDGs (DWAT-SDGs)
- In the News
Climate action (The News International)
- In the News
Don't forget the people (Daily News)
Claudia Ringler
Director, Natural Resources and Resilience (NRR)Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Senior Research FellowDawit Mekonnen
Nonresident FellowHua Xie
Research FellowElizabeth Bryan
Senior Scientist