Welcome to the IFPRI Gender and Development Forum, facilitated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
This blog is a space to share news about new publications, research tools, learning resources, events, and job openings in the field of gender and development, including agriculture, food and nutrition security, natural resource management and governance, rural livelihoods, and women's empowerment.
Background on Gender Research at IFPRI
The International Food Policy Research Institute is one of 15 centers supported by the CGIAR, an alliance of 74 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations. As a CGIAR center, IFPRI seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. Gender research is critical to IFPRI’s mission. This includes both research in which gender analysis is a key focus of the methodology and research in which gender is a significant variable in the analysis.
Through programs such as the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index and IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, as well as the IFPRI-led CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi), the Institute collects data, tests models, and generates important findings on how gender relates to food and nutrition security; the gendered impacts of agricultural development projects; empower and resource allocation within the household; market development and trade; institution building; land tenure; natural resource management; and overall economic development and poverty reduction.
For more information about IFPRI's gender research, please visit the IFPRI Gender Topic page.
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