IFPRI’s wide range of partnerships in Bangladesh have influenced the design and operation of large-scale national programs and provided real-time policy analysis during times of crisis. The country’s commitment to using research to guide policy decisions has helped to foster a culture of evaluation that can truly have an impact on hunger and malnutrition.
A Win for Women
On March 8, 2019, the world celebrates International Women’s Day—a day dedicated to raising awareness on the importance of achieving gender parity in the working world. To understand women’s role in agriculture and to close the gender gap in agricultural production, the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) research has been examining gender differences within rural households and communities for over 25 years.
Enhancing nutrition and ending poverty: IFPRI and India
IFPRI’S Partnership with India began more than 40 years ago. Throughout the years, IFPRI has collaborated with the Government of India to tackle the most-relevant issues from rural development in the 70s to an expanded set of current issues such as nutrition, climate change, and value chains.
Enhancing agriculture and ending poverty: IFPRI and Japan
For more than 30 years, Japan has partnered with IFPRI in Africa and Asia, providing support for areas of shared concern—from agricultural modernization to capacity strengthening to nutrition. Evidence from IFPRI research, which has benefited from long-term Japanese support, has influenced policies in the countries of research and informed Japan’s investments in development.
Transform Nutrition & LANSA: Improving Nutrition with Regional Alliances
Transforming whole food systems for nutrition requires wide-reaching alliances of stakeholders from multiple sectors. Recognizing this, DFID funded Transform Nutrition (TN), a large consortium led by IFPRI that is producing research on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions (such as agriculture, social protection, and women’s empowerment) in specific regions around the world. The TN consortium, a six-year >> Read more
Innovations in Index Insurance: Weathering the Storm
With support from DFID and other donors beginning in 2010, IFPRI assessed how to improve the potential of index insurance to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers. Risk is part of everyday life for many of the world’s poorest households, and uninsured risks can pose considerable costs to current and future welfare. Thus, the lack >> Read more
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