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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.

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.

Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa By 2020

Prioritizing Action, Strengthening Actors, and Facilitating Partnerships

April 1 to 3, 2004

  • 9:00 – 4:30 pm (Africa/Kampala)
  • 1:00 – 8:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 7:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Food and nutrition security remain Africa’s most fundamental challenge. This all-Africa conference brought together more than 500 traditional and new actors and stakeholders from more than 50 countries to deliberate on how to bring about change and action to assure food and nutrition security.