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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She co-leads a research program that examines how closing the gap between men’s and women’s ownership and control of assets may lead to better development outcomes.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

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GHI 2010

  • Facts and Findings from GHI 2010: Sub-Saharan Africa

    Facts and Findings from GHI 2010: Sub-Saharan Africa

    The 2010 GHI score fell by 14 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the 1990 score, according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. Yet the region ranks second overall with an index of 21.7 (South Asia ranks first at 22.9, with higher scores indicating higher levels of hunger and malnutrition) and is home to eight of…

  • Facts and Findings from GHI 2010: Asia

    Facts and Findings from GHI 2010: Asia

    South Asia has the highest regional “hunger index”, at 22.9 (out of 100), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released earlier this week. The report cites the low nutritional, educational, and social status of women as leading factors that contribute to a high prevalence of underweight in children under five, one of the key indicators…