IFPRI CGIAR
Subscribe

Back

Who we are

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.

researcher spotlight

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

Where we work

Back

Where we work

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

IFPRI Regional Programs

IFPRI Country Programs

Research by country and region

Subscribe

partnerships

The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), one of fifteen CGIAR Research Centers, develops crops, agricultural practices, interventions, and policies to maximize health and nutrition benefits. CIAT works in collaboration with hundreds of partners to help developing countries make farming more competitive, profitable, and resilient through smarter, more sustainable natural resource management. CIAT helps policymakers, scientists, and farmers respond to some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change, and environmental degradation.

Homepage Link
donor-ciat

Publications

Resource thumbnail

Brief

Should Sri Lanka attempt to achieve self-sufficiency in pulses?

2024Natarajan, Kiruthika; Thibbotuwawa, Manoj; Babu, Suresh Chandra
Details

Should Sri Lanka attempt to achieve self-sufficiency in pulses?

Agriculture is the mainstay of Sri Lanka’s rural economy and employs about 26.5 percent of the country’s total employed population, rural and urban (Department of Census and Statistics [DCS] 2023a). Paddy occupies the largest portion of cropland; tea, rubber, coconut, spices, fruits, vegetables, pulses, and other cereals occupy the rest (Thibbotuwawa 2021; Senanayake and Premaratne 2016; Adhikari nayake 2005). Nonetheless, food and nutrition security remain a major challenge: nearly 3.9 million people, or 17 percent of Sri Lankans, experience moderately acute food insecurity; nearly 10,000 are severely acute food insecure; and 56 percent of households have adopted food-based coping strategies, including reducing meal portion sizes (36 percent) and skipping meals (19 percent) (FAO 2023a). Moreover, the prevalence of underweight in women and anaemia in adolescent girls and women is high in South Asia (UNICEF 2023), and micronutrient (iron, zinc, and/or folate) deficiencies are also highest there (72 percent).

Year published

2024

Authors

Natarajan, Kiruthika; Thibbotuwawa, Manoj; Babu, Suresh Chandra

Citation

Natarajan, Kiruthika; Thibbotuwawa, Manoj; and Babu, Suresh. 2024. Should Sri Lanka attempt to achieve self-sufficiency in pulses? Policy Note April 2024. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Country/Region

Sri Lanka

Keywords

Southern Asia; Asia; Agriculture; Crops; Grain Legumes; Cereal Crops; Nutrition; Food Security; Nutrient Deficiencies

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Source

Source record

Record type

Brief

Resource thumbnail

Poster

Transformation of the “hidden middle” of aquaculture value chains: fish wholesalers in Bangladesh

2024Ali, Hazrat; Belton, Ben; Haque, Md. Mahfuzul; Hernandez, Ricardo; Khondker, Murshed-E-Jahan; Ignowski, Elizabeth; Reardon, Thomas
Details

Transformation of the “hidden middle” of aquaculture value chains: fish wholesalers in Bangladesh

Wholesalers in food value chains in developing countries are often criticized as exploitative, offering high output-tied credit to farmers and insufficient with high loss and waste. Recent research highlights their importance as the “hidden middle”, often overlooked in policy debates due to insufficient survey research (Reardon 2015). Aquaculture has rapidly expanded in Bangladesh in four decades, attributed to aquatic food traders and off-farm businesses. However, little is known about wholesalers’ behavior and organization within the ‘hidden middle’ of aquatic food value chains, impeding result generalization due to inadequate sampling techniques in previous research. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate structure, technological changes, and wholesalers’ performance, informing policy debates on aquatic food value chains in Bangladesh.

Year published

2024

Authors

Ali, Hazrat; Belton, Ben; Haque, Md. Mahfuzul; Hernandez, Ricardo; Khondker, Murshed-E-Jahan; Ignowski, Elizabeth; Reardon, Thomas

Citation

Hazrat Ali, Ben Belton, Md. Mahfuzul Haque, Ricardo Hernandez, Murshed-E-Jahan Khondker, Elizabeth Ignowski, Thomas Reardon. (16/4/2024). Transformation of the “hidden middle” of aquaculture value chains: fish wholesalers in Bangladesh. Bayan Lepas, Malaysia: WorldFish (WF).

Country/Region

Bangladesh

Keywords

Southern Asia; Aquaculture Farmers; Domestic Trade; Fish; Wholesalers; Aquatic Food Production; Aquatic Food Value Chains

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-4.0

Source

Source record

Project

Asian Mega-Deltas

Record type

Poster

Resource thumbnail

Brief

Gender Transformative Approaches to Strengthen Women’s Land and Resource Rights

2023Morgan, M.; Larson, A.M.; Trautman, S.; Garner, E.; Elias, M.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Details

Gender Transformative Approaches to Strengthen Women’s Land and Resource Rights

International standards and policies are clear about women’s right to equality in the enjoyment of all their rights, including rights to access, use, inherit, control and own land. Sustainable Development Goal Target 5.a specifically calls for reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to, ownership and control over land and natural resources. Securing women’s land and resource rights is a critical goal in and of itself – and also a crucial factor in achieving many of the other SDGs.

Year published

2023

Authors

Morgan, M.; Larson, A.M.; Trautman, S.; Garner, E.; Elias, M.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

Citation

Morgan, M. (Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) Larson, A.M. (CIFOR-ICRAF) Trautman, S. (CIFOR-ICRAF) Garner, E. (CIFOR-ICRAF) Elias, M. (Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT), Meinzen-Dick, R. (IFPRI), 2023. Gender Transformative Approaches to Strengthen Women’s Land and Resource Rights. Bogor, Indonesia: Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Nairobi: World Agroforestry (ICRAF) International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Keywords

Gender; Land Tenure; Customary Right; Indigenous People

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Source

Source record

Project

Gender Equality

Record type

Brief

Events

Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies
IFPRI Policy Seminar

 | 

November 26, 2019, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies

African countries have made considerable progress in increasing agricultural productivity and reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. But  continued population growth, urbanization, changing diets, and climate change are putting pressure on food systems not only to provide more food but also to make more diverse and nutritious foods available and accessible. New digital technologies and services […]

Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research
IFPRI Policy Seminar

 | 

October 30, 2019, 12:15 – 1:45 pm

Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research

How can agriculture and natural resource management advance gender equality? Asking this question rather than only its inverse — what does gender analysis bring to agriculture and natural resource management? — elevates the objective of gender equality within CGIAR, challenges boundaries in thinking about gender in agriculture, and stimulates new and creative perspectives. Gender researchers […]

CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention
IFPRI at External Event

 | 

October 3 to 5, 2018

CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention

IFPRI Staff are participating in the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture co-hosted by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) taking place October 3-5, 2018 at the Campus of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya. This convention is the second yearly event to bring together the people and organizations that make the […]

Blogs

Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
IFPRI Blog
 | 
October 08, 2019

Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends

By Alan de Brauw

A biofortification project in Mozambique shows lasting nutrition benefits.

How climate change will impact agricultural productivity in Central America and the Andean Region
IFPRI Blog
 | 
August 19, 2019

How climate change will impact agricultural productivity in Central America and the Andean Region

By Timothy S. Thomas, Ana María Loboguerrero RodrÍguez, Ana R. Rios, Deissy Martínez Barón, Graciela Magrin, and Vicente Barros

Central America will be particularly hard-hit by declining yields of rainfed maize, modeling shows.