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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.

Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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What we do

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

Where we work

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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.

International migration is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon determined by a wide set of factors, including push factors that encourage people to move out of their current location, and pull factors that attract people to move into a new location. It is estimated that around 265,000 people permanently emigrated from the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) to the US in each of the past five years.

This project covers a wide set of studies that intend to characterize, monitor and better understand emigration patterns in rural Guatemala using different primary and secondary data sources. As a cross-cutting theme and outcome of interest for current and future USAID-Guatemala programs and interventions, special attention is placed on targeted vulnerable areas in the country with high poverty and malnutrition rates.

The project includes four main activities

The project includes four main activities:

  1. Context and targeting analysis to prioritize municipalities based on their level of emigration and potential for agricultural development, socioeconomic, accessibility and vulnerability characteristics.
  2. Analysis of migration drivers and trigger factors at the regional and household level, including the development of a Migration Propensity Index (MPI) to better measure and track the likelihood of emigration among households.
  3. Monitoring of direct and indirect migration indicators among targeted populations and prioritized areas.
  4. Assessing the correlation between participation in selected Feed the Future programs and emigration.

Project duration: 2019 – 2021



Funders

United States of America


Funders

United States of America

Team members

Manuel Hernandez

Senior Research Fellow, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions, Latin America and the Caribbean

Manuel Hernandez

Senior Research Fellow, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions, Latin America and the Caribbean

Francisco Ceballos

Research Fellow, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions, Latin America and the Caribbean

Cynthia Paz

Senior Research Analyst, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions, Latin America and the Caribbean

Francisco Olivet

General Manager, O&M Estudios y Proyectos; Associate Member, Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (ICTA) of Guatemala; and Coordinator of Graduate Program in Agronomy, Universidad Mariano Gálvez

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