This week, China and CGIAR are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their partnership. To celebrate IFPRI’s collaboration with China, the Institute has compiled the Highlights of IFPRI’s partnerships and impacts in China: Reducing Hunger and Poverty Through Food Policy Research:
- IFPRI launched its China Strategy Support Program in 1996, and subsequently established the International Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (ICARD) in 2003 together with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
- HarvestPlus, an initiative co-led by IFPRI that aims to increase the micronutrient content of food crops, has supported the release of four crop varieties rich in micronutrients and the development of another 16 in China.
- IFPRI’s research on Public Investment in Chinese Agriculture showed that allocating public funds for rural roads and agricultural research reduces poverty and spurs rural economic growth. After these results were cited in the 2008 World Development Report, and discussed by IFPRI’s then-director general and China’s then-President Jiang Zemin, the Chinese government implemented a number of policies consistent with IFPRI’s recommendations. An external impact assessment found that IFPRI played “an important indirect role” in the development of China’s eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006–2010).
- In 2007 IFPRI organized the international conference Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People in Beijing. Hui Liangyu, vice premier of China’s State Council, used the conference as a forum to announce China’s plans to strengthen inclusive anti-poverty partnerships and China’s collaboration with partner countries on poverty reduction strategies.
Click here to read more about the highlights of IFPRI’s major projects, partnerships, and knowledge-sharing activities in China in recent years.
Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People Conference website
