Food is a basic human right. Evidence-based policies and strategies help ensure that all people have access to safe, sufficient, nutritious, and sustainably grown food so they can lead healthy and productive lives. Food policy research generates the evidence.
Established in 1975, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) identifies and analyzes national and international policies and strategies for meeting the food needs of the developing world on a sustainable basis, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and on the poorer groups in those countries.
While the research effort is geared to the precise objective of contributing to the reduction of hunger and malnutrition, the factors involved are many and wide-ranging, requiring analysis of underlying processes and extending beyond a narrowly defined food sector.
The Institute’s research program reflects worldwide collaboration with governments, as well as private and public institutions, interested in increasing food production and improving the equity of its distribution. Research results are disseminated to policymakers, opinion formers, administrators, policy analysts, researchers, and others concerned with national and international food and agricultural policy.
