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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.

Emily Schmidt

Emily Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her most recent research explores household livelihood strategies in Papua New Guinea, including linkages between agriculture, poverty, and nutrition outcomes among rural smallholder farmers.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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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.

IFPRI @ Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2025

Food, Health, & Prosperity for All

Paris

France

March 27 to 28, 2025

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Paris)
  • 4:00 – 12:00 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 1:30 – 9:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is pleased to participate in the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2025. The 2025 conference will be held in Paris, France and will focus on driving global action against malnutrition by bringing together stakeholders from various sectors to generate political and financial commitments to improve nutrition worldwide, with a particular focus on placing nutrition at the center of the sustainable development agenda.

The year 2025 is significant as it marks the end of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. N4G Paris will serve as a multi-stakeholder summit, advocating for ambitious financial and political commitments and fostering dialogue among diverse actors from around the world, including governments, international organizations, research institutions, civil society organizations, philanthropies, private sector entities, and more.

For more information, click HERE.

March 26, 2025

“Scientific Day” & Inside Event “Mobilising Public Development Banks for Nutrition” | 09:30 – 17:00 (Europe/Paris)

Access to Nutrition: Social protection mechanisms, vulnerable populations and the critical period of the 1000 days

  • Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy; Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, IFPRI

March 27, 2025

Healthy Diets – How to Measure Dietary Quality | 13:30 – 15:00 (Europe/Paris)

March 28, 2025

Roundtable on Nutrition, Sport, and Education | 9:00 – 10:15 (Europe/Paris)

  • Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy; Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, IFPRI