The International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) new research program on Food Industries for People and Planet (FIPP) will expand traditional ways of thinking about the global food system and will provide evidence-based policy assessments aimed at making agri-food industries and food systems more inclusive in terms of employment and income opportunities, more efficient in terms of meeting global food needs, and conducive to the promotion of healthy diets and environmentally sound production and distribution systems.
The three areas of research include
The research program aims to focus on three interrelated areas of research:
(1) Improving agri-food market efficiency and access
(2) Innovation for inclusive agri-food value chains development
(3) Incentives for safer, healthier, and more sustainable food
The FIPP program is actively seeking partnerships, collaborations, and funding. The program will be driven by the FIPP Consortium, a multi-national group of stakeholders – from governments to food companies, research organizations, and civil society – who will work together to identify priority research questions and build partnerships. As part of the FIPP program, IFPRI will also leverage its ongoing partnerships with FAO, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the Scaling up Nutrition movement, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Please click here for more information on the FIPP Consortium.
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Outputs / Resources
Rob Vos
Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI)
Rob Vos
Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI)Nicholas Minot
Deputy Division Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions DivisionDavid Laborde Debucquet
Senior Research FellowYanyan Liu
Senior Research FellowAlan de Brauw
Senior Research FellowManuel Hernandez
Senior Research FellowFutoshi Yamauchi
Senior Research FellowBerber Kramer
Senior Research FellowVivian Hoffmann
Senior Research FellowDavid Spielman
Director, Innovation Policy and Scaling (IPS)Bart Minten
Senior Research Fellow/ Program Leader of the Myanmar Strategy Support ProgramPaul Dorosh
Director, Development Strategy and Governance (DSG)Daniel Gilligan
Director, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI)James Thurlow
Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM)Valeria Piñeiro
Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator
Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations
Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry in Africa: A global and local approach
Nutrition sensitive value chains: Theory, progress, and open questions
Tracking the quality premium of certified coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia
Elements of agriculture value chain financing: A review
You get what you pay for: the link between price and food safety in Kenya
The quiet revolution and emerging modern revolution in agri-food processing in Sub-Saharan Africa
The quiet revolution in agri-food distribution (wholesale, logistics, retail) in Sub-Saharan Africa
Private sector’s role in agricultural transformation in Africa: Overview
Food industries for people and planet: Towards a new research agenda: Meeting report February 20, 2019
Enabling the business environment for healthy and sustainable food: IFPRI-GAIN/SBN roundtable event
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