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IFPRI’s vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. The vision is based on the human right to adequate food and nutrition and recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. It is a world where every person has secure access to sufficient and safe food to sustain a healthy and productive life and where decisions related to food are made transparently and with the participation of consumers and producers.

Two key premises underlie IFPRI's mission: First, sound and appropriate local, national, and international public policies are essential to achieving sustainable food security and nutritional improvement. Second, research and the dissemination of its results are critical inputs into the process of raising the quality of the debate and formulating sound and appropriate food policies.

This mission flows from the CGIAR mission: "To achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through scientific research and research-related activities in the fields of agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries, policy, and natural resources management."

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The cornerstones of IFPRI’s work are research, policy communications, and capacity strengthening for policy and research, with research as the main driving force. Based on the priority-setting criteria mentioned above, IFPRI groups 13 research and outreach themes under 3 overarching research priorities. Most of the research themes are interlinked; as such they are pursued not in isolation but as components of an integrated research

IFPRI’s mission entails a strong emphasis on research priorities and qualities that facilitate change:

• identifying and analyzing alternative international, national, and local policies for improved food security and nutrition, with an emphasis on low-income countries and poor people and on the sound management of the natural resources base that supports agriculture;
• contributing to capacity strengthening of people and institutions in developing countries conducting research on food policies; and
• actively engaging in policy communication, making research results available to all those in a position to apply or use them, and carrying out dialogues with those users to link research and policy action.

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Indigenous Peoples
Womens'Access
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