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.
India
For nearly four decades, IFPRI has been working closely with the Indian Government in ensuring food and nutrition security in the country. In 2005, IFPRI opened its New Delhi Office with then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh cutting the ribbon. IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership showed the strong impact of agricultural growth on poverty reduction. In the late 1970s, the Indian government sought food security solutions that extended beyond food aid; technology and rural development played leading roles in the IFPRI-India working relationship during that period.
For decades that followed, IFPRI’s cutting-edge research in India tackled public expenditure and poverty in rural India, transformation of Indian agriculture, high-value agriculture, malnutrition, public investment, climate change, value chains, capacity strengthening, and biofortification.
To read more on the extensive work IFPRI has in India, go to this brochure.
Highlights IFPRI and USAID partnership: Reducing poverty and hunger through food policy research
For four decades, the longstanding collaboration between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has been crucial to helping developing countries attain agriculture-led economic growth. The innovative programs and strong evidence base produced through this partnership have contributed to transforming policies and investments for improved food >> Read more
Rural Business Hubs in India
In 2008, USAID called on IFPRI to examine how the private-sector can catalyze rural competitiveness and foster inclusiveness through rural business hubs in India. IFPRI’s evaluation of these hubs in three Indian states helped private-sector partners cut down the cost and improve the quality of inputs and services provided to farmers, such as weather information, >> Read more
Innovation in Insurance: Managing the Risky Business of Weather
On March 29-30, 2017, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs will host the Global Food Security Symposium in Washington, D.C. IFPRI has been helping design and evaluate index insurance products to aid farmers in mitigating the impact and managing the risks associated with severe weather and crop loss.
Innovations for Stimulating Improved Water Management
World Water Day will be celebrated on March 22. IFPRI has been using experimental games on the ground to measure collective action and test theories about behaviors regarding common pool resources.
Ensuring Healthy Pulses for People and the Planet
January 18, 2017 marks the second Global Pulse Day designed to emphasize the benefits of pulses for farmers, consumers, and the environment. IFPRI’s research, technical support, and outreach activities on pulses have provided inputs to policy discussions.
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