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  • Contact: Mrs Ruth Meinzen-Dick
  • Address: International Food Policy Research Institute 1201 Eye St, NW Washington, DC 20005 USA
  • Phone: +1 202-862-5600
  • Email: ifpri@cgiar.org
  • Web: www.ifpri.org
  • Members:
    IFPRI

IFPRI

INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

2003

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

The organisation's mission is to provide policy solutions that reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition.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."
IFPRI envisions a world free of hunger and malnutrition.This vision is based on the human right to adequate food and freedom from hunger, and the recognition of the dignity inherent in all human beings.

Objectives

Identifying and analyzing alternative international, national, and local policies in support of improved food security and nutrition, emphasizing low-income countries and poor people and the sound management of the natural resource base that supports agriculture; contributing to capacity strengthening of people and institutions in developing countries that conduct research on food, agriculture, and nutrition policies; actively engaging in policy communications, 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.

Constituencies

IFPRI places priority on activities that benefit the greatest number of poor people in greatest need in the developing world.

  • Contact: Mrs Ruth Meinzen-Dick
  • Address: International Food Policy Research Institute 1201 Eye St, NW Washington, DC 20005 USA
  • Phone: +1 202-862-5600
  • Email: ifpri@cgiar.org
  • Web: www.ifpri.org
  • Members:
    IFPRI