Leaders of CGIAR research programs, along with donors and external stakeholders, are meeting this month in Montpellier, France to review the CGIAR Research Program and to “listen, engage, learn and progress on how to achieve the outcomes of reducing rural poverty, increasing food security, improving nutrition and health and the sustainable management of natural resources.”

In an interview conducted at this meeting, Karen Brooks, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies Institutions and Markets (PIM) discusses the concrete repercussions of policy work, some of the challenges of assessing impacts, and the special contribution that being a woman can make to this work.

The full interview, originally posted on CGIAR.org, can be read on the PIM blog here:http://www.pim.cgiar.org/2013/06/27/karen-brooks-on-generating-knowledge….

For other resources and posts published about this meeting, including presentations and background documents, please visit http://www.cgiar.org/events/cgiar-research-program-engagement-with-donor….