{"id":10324,"date":"2025-01-30T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngofeed.com\/blog\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:25:33","slug":"role-of-ifpri-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngofeed.com\/blog\/role-of-ifpri-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of IFPRI in India: Regional, Program, Work, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Role of IFPRI in India: <\/strong>The\u00a0International Food Policy Research Institute\u00a0(IFPRI) is an international\u00a0research\u00a0center focused on agriculture and food systems that provides research-based\u00a0policy\u00a0solutions to reduce\u00a0poverty\u00a0and end\u00a0hunger\u00a0and\u00a0malnutrition\u00a0throughout\u00a0low- and middle-income countries\u00a0in\u00a0environmentally sustainable\u00a0ways. For nearly 50 years, IFPRI has worked with policymakers, academics,\u00a0nongovernmental organizations, the\u00a0private sector, development practitioners, and others to carry out research,\u00a0capacity strengthening, and policy communications on\u00a0food systems,\u00a0economic development, and\u00a0poverty reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI is a Research Center of\u00a0CGIAR, the world’s largest international agricultural research network, and the only CGIAR center solely dedicated to\u00a0food policy\u00a0research. IFPRI\u2019s research is supported by more than 185 donors, and through a multi donor trust fund for the CGIAR, \u00a0which is funded by national governments, multilateral funding and development agencies, and\u00a0private foundations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI’s researchers work on a range of disciplines and topics, including\u00a0agricultural economics,\u00a0political economy,\u00a0rural poverty\u00a0and transformation,\u00a0social protection,\u00a0women’s empowerment, food environments, digital innovations and practices, and\u00a0policy analysis\u00a0and modeling.\u00a0The Institute collaborates with hundreds of local, regional, and national partners along the research and policy life cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI’s regional programs for\u00a0Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI’s regional programs for\u00a0Africa,\u00a0Latin America and the Caribbean, and\u00a0South Asia, as well as its country-level programs, respond to national demands for food policy research, strengthen local capacities for research and policy analysis, and support country-led development. The Institute has around 600 employees from around the world working in over 80 countries, with more than half of its researchers based in low- and middle-income countries. In Africa, IFPRI maintains a regional office in\u00a0Senegal\u00a0and country programs in\u00a0Egypt,\u00a0Ethiopia,\u00a0Ghana,\u00a0Kenya,\u00a0Malawi,\u00a0Nigeria,\u00a0Rwanda, and\u00a0Sudan. IFRI\u2019s South Asia office is based in\u00a0India, with country offices in\u00a0Bangladesh,\u00a0China, and\u00a0Myanmar. The Institute also operates a country office in\u00a0Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI is recognized as a leader in\u00a0global development\u00a0research worldwide. The Institute is ranked highly among all agricultural economics departments worldwide, in the field of African economics, and in\u00a0development economics, and is listed in the top 1% of all institutions registered in\u00a0Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Role of IFPRI in India<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Independent, peer-reviewed assessments of IFPRI’s impact show that the Institute’s research work has benefited 270 million people worldwide, and just a few of its efforts\u2014including work on Mexico\u2019s\u00a0Progresa\u00a0social protection program, the liberalization of rice markets in\u00a0Viet Nam, and Ethiopia’s\u00a0Productive Safety Net Program, among others\u2014have been estimated to lead to more than US$1 billion in\u00a0economic returns\u00a0and environmental benefits.[16]\u00a0The Institute’s researchers and their activities have been recognized by several prestigious organizations, including the\u00a0Agricultural & Applied Economics Association\u00a0and the\u00a0International Association of Agricultural Economists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Read: Role of UNESCO in Women’s Empowerment<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute publishes and shares its research and analysis through a range of publications, including\u00a0peer-reviewed\u00a0articles, books, briefs, and reports, blogs, and interactives, and different events, including conferences and seminars, among other activities. IFPRI regularly contributes to major international meetings and events, such as the\u00a028th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties\u00a0(COP28) in 2023 in Dubai, where its researchers organized and participated in multiple events focusing on the nexus between climate change and\u00a0food security\u00a0and\u00a0nutrition,\u00a0social equity,\u00a0gender equality, and\u00a0resilience, among other topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Products and publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI\u2019s policy and research products are targeted to multiple audiences, including policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, donors, advisors, and the media. IFPRI publications are open access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI\u2019s publications and outputs include books, reports, newsletters, briefs, fact sheets, blogs, and photo essays. The Institute is also involved in the collection of primary data and the compilation and processing of secondary data. IFPRI researchers publish extensively in top journals in the fields of agricultural economics, development, food policy, nutrition, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Food Policy Report is IFPRI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Global Food Policy Report is IFPRI’s flagship publication. To meet the needs of policymakers and researchers focused on food security and nutrition, this annual report presents an overview of a salient topic in the field and discusses relevant challenges and solutions in major world regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, IFPRI\u2019s Global Food Policy Report has focused on pressing issues facing the world\u2019s food systems, including the role of sustainable healthy diets in human and planetary well-being, approaches to building resilience to food crises, food system actions to increase adaptation and resilience to climate change, and the need for food systems transformation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI\u2019s researchers work across a range of disciplines and with a wide array of local and national partners in developing countries, as well as research, scaling, advocacy, and funding partners, to provide rigorous, policy-relevant evidence and recommendations to policymakers, donors, the private sector, and civil society. Our\u00a0regional and country programs\u00a0in Africa, Asia, and Latin America respond to national demand for holistic food policy research and strengthen local research and policy analysis capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By informing better policy decisions, agenda setting, and investments in sustainable equitable food systems, IFPRI\u2019s research has contributed to policies and programs that\u00a0benefit millions\u00a0around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI is a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1975.  It is classified by the Internal Revenue Service as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3). It is not a branch, division, or agency of the United States government. In 1982, IFPRI was granted recognition as an international organization solely for U.S. tax and immigration purposes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Read: Role of the UNCTAD in India<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Evaluations from the early 2000s and late 1990s praise the Institute\u2019s quality and quantity of work but critique its priorities in selecting research topics and its efforts to undertake capacity-strengthening and other outreach activities. Critics have also questioned whether IFPRI focused too much on conducting world supply-demand projections and following technical pursuits to the detriment of doing analyses of applied policies, political economy, and the impacts of\u00a0agricultural subsidies\u00a0and incentives for investment in agricultural\u00a0research and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFPRI and CGIAR have also been criticized for receiving funding from the\u00a0Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with critics fearing that the Foundation\u2019s influence will lead to the promotion of an agribusiness agenda that ignores broader social and economic factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics argue that several efforts to improve collaboration, effectiveness, and efficiency among the CGIAR Research Centers have been too slow or inadequate, and some critiques have pointed to a perceived lack of clear research priorities, buy-in from the\u00a0Global South, and diversity in leadership, as well as an overly bureaucratic, “business-as-usual” approach to restructuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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