Policy Research for Evolving Food Systems Needs
Looking Toward 2050
Since its founding in 1975, IFPRI has worked closely with hundreds of partners, including its sister CGIAR centers, around the world to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI’s research has informed important policy, program, and investment decisions and had a positive impact on the lives of many people in low- and middle-income countries. IFPRI is also looking ahead to 2050, with a focus on ensuring that high-quality evidence remains at the forefront of national, regional, and global development policy processes in an increasingly complex world.
We are proud to showcase the importance of food policy research as we mark our 50th anniversary with a series of outputs and events:
50th Anniversary Global Food Policy Report special edition
Our flagship Global Food Policy Report will be released in May 2025, highlighting key lessons, impacts, and forward-looking analysis from food policy research for sustainable, equitable food systems. With chapters from IFPRI researchers, colleagues, and partners, the Report will examine the evidence built over the past 50 years and identify critical research directions to inform strategies and policies that will achieve key development outcomes by 2050.
Measuring Our Impact
IFPRI is committed to providing research solutions that make a difference in people’s lives. Building on past assessments, we will be releasing a new external impact assessment on the past 50 years of our work. We will also continue to add to our Making a Difference blog, which highlights stories of IFPRI’s impact through research around the world.
New IFPRI Strategy
Building on IFPRI’s unique approach to research and strengths, we are developing a forward-looking strategy to identify priority research areas and operationalize them through on-the-ground partnerships and outreach. Informed by the Global Food Policy Report and stakeholder consultations, these priorities will be backed by high-quality research and co-developed and implemented with governments, NGOs, and networks within the Global South
Faces of IFPRI
“Faces of IFPRI” series features IFPRI colleagues around the world, showcasing the diversity of talent, geographies, and research interests across the Institute.
History & Impact
Featured Publications
Brochure
IFPRI Making a difference
International Food Policy Research Institute
Book
IFPRI’s first 10 years
Farrar, Curtis
Book
Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers – Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research
von Braun, Joachim; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul50th Anniversary Blog Series
Within five years, [Rwanda achieved] a 12 percent reduction in poverty … because we focused on where the majority of people were … When IFPRI does these studies, it provides evidence that move us forward and help our countries understand where to put our efforts.
Agnes Kalibata
President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
April 22, 2024
IFPRI helped build the organizational capacity of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) to undertake policy and additional research design, and implement some of the most impactful projects that it has actually undertaken to date.
Khalid Bomba
Founding CEO, Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
November 6, 2023