Both USAID and IFPRI know that unlocking the potential of agriculture is critical to breaking the vicious cycle of hunger, malnutrition, and extreme poverty. In 2010, the US government launched Feed the Future—the country’s global hunger and food security initiative with a comprehensive approach that draws on partnerships across sectors, country leadership, and a focus on achieving results. IFPRI has been providing technical, analytical, monitoring and evaluation, meeting, and communication support to the program, which has contributed to important successes for Feed the Future. In Bangladesh, the comprehensive, nationally representative survey IFPRI developed—the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey—which also measures women’s empowerment using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), informed policy decisions, program improvements, and investments that led to a 16 percent decline in national poverty according to USAID’s 2016 Feed the Future Progress Report. Because adoption of the WEAI was an important part of monitoring and evaluation for the Feed the Future initiative in Bangladesh, USAID decided to collect these data for an additional 18 Feed the Future country programs, enabling them to capture data and insights on gender dynamics in agriculture and rural communities, providing information that could help program designers address barriers to gender equality within their programs. Further, IFPRI’s research has been contributing to other Feed the Future projects that aim to increase agricultural productivity, strengthen resilience, and make rural livelihoods profitable. Under the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation, IFPRI is examining the potential for expanding irrigated agriculture in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania through improved and more effective use of scarce water supplies.
The Outcome Brochures show how IFPRI’s food policy research has contributed to reducing poverty and improving food security for the world’s poor in a number of key areas. With a focus on a particular country, region, or donor organization, the brochures highlight the outcomes, use or influence of the IFPRI’s research programs.
As part of IFPRI’s 40th Anniversary celebration, 12 stories were published that reflect on the Institute’s work on key issues, such as social protection, gender, nutrition, and partnerships with key countries, including Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
Impact Assessment work examines the policy and development outcomes and contributions to impact of IFPRI's research.
