IFPRI and the EC's partnership has made significant strides in providing evidence-based research on food and nutrition security. At the 10th European Development Days (EDD), IFPRI continues to work with the EC and other partners to accelerate progress towards food and nutrition security.
Partnering with the United States to Reduce Poverty and Hunger
During IFPRI’s 40th Anniversary event in 2015, Nancy Stetson, Special Representative for Global Food Security of the United States Department of State, spoke on the value of IFPRI’s research to the United States government to reduce hunger.
Australian Partnership for Global Impact
IFPRI’s partnership with Australia traces back to its inception when it was fortunate to have a world-renowned Australian economist Sir John Crawford as its first board chairman.
Pakistan’s Wheat Policy
"[There] was absolutely no need to continue the ration system to 1980s, and yet it continued. But for the IFPRI’s study, it may have continued even now." - Dr. Zafur Altaf, Secretary of Pakistan's Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Food Policy in the Dynamics of Global Agriculture, a documentary video by AGCOM International.
Index-Based Weather Insurance in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia in 2009, IFPRI researchers saw the promise in an innovative index-based weather insurance plan—which automatically delivered payments to farmers when the local rainfall index fell below a certain level, thereby avoiding any costly estimation of potential yield losses.
Food for Education in Bangladesh
MOTIVATION In 1991 IFPRI conducted a comprehensive study of a targeted food subsidy program in Bangladesh known as palli (rural) rationing. The Institute found that subsidies equivalent to US$60 million were being provided each year to run the program but about 70 percent of the subsidized food (mostly rice) was not actually making its way >> Read more
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