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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.

Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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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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    Papua New Guinea Food Policy Strengthening Project

    The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Papua New Guinea National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) have teamed up to support data-driven policy dialogue and formulation. This project is designed to provide an in-depth agricultural strategy report to provide the foundation for informing key agricultural development challenges and opportunities […]


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    Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI)

    Picture-Based Insurance is a new, innovative way of delivering affordable, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand crop insurance. By relying on visible crop characteristics derived from farmers’ own smartphone pictures, the project aims to minimize the costs of loss verification and detect damage at the plot level, making crop insurance more attractive and […]


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    Pluralistic Extension System in Malawi

    Launched in 2016, this 3-year evidence-based policy support project, Assessing and Enhancing the Capacity, Performance and Impact of the Pluralistic Agricultural Extension System in Malawi, set out to analyze the demand for and supply of agricultural extension services in Malawi in order to design and undertake activities to strengthen the […]


  • Political Economy of Large-Scale Food Fortification

    Political Economy of Large-Scale Food Fortification

    Despite broad acknowledgement by the research community that large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a cost-effective intervention to address micronutrient deficiencies, the uptake and implementation of LSFF regulations and supporting policies is highly variable across countries and across food different food vehicles. This project therefore examines the political economy dynamics—inclusive of […]


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    POSHAN

    Brings together and disseminates data and evidence to support policy decisions for accelerating reductions in malnutrition in India, beginning at the state level.


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    Prioritizing agricultural investments for income, poverty reduction, and nutrition

    Identifies methods and tools related to the prioritization of agricultural investment taking into account multiple objectives, including income growth, poverty reduction, and improved nutrition


  • Private sector-led digital agricultural extension for smallholder farmers: impact evaluation and learning study in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

    IFPRI, in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Research Commissioning Centre (RCC) and GSMA, is leading an impact evaluation study and supporting the learning agenda on the role of private sector-led AgTech B2B platforms in transforming agricultural advisory services in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The project […]


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    Productive uses of energy for irrigated agriculture in Ethiopia

    The project provides an integrated irrigation-energy planning framework to identify groundwater irrigation development potentials in Ethiopia under three energy solutions: grid-connected electricity, off-grid solar PV, and diesel. It presents least cost energy options to produce vegetables, maize, wheat, and pulses with small scale irrigation in different parts of the country […]


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    Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI)

    PARI brings together partners from Africa, India and Germany to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food and nutrition security in Africa and India as part of the One World – No Hunger initiative.


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    Reaching Smallholder Women with Information Services and Resilience Strategies to Respond to Climate Change

    Climate change is already affecting the livelihoods of small farmers around the globe, particularly in marginal environments where farmers lack resources to address the climate challenges they face. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a set of guiding principles to identify technologies, practices, tools and policies to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and […]