Public-Sector Agricultural Research Priorities for Sustainable Food Security Perspectives from Plausible Scenarios

Abstract

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), established in 1975, provides evidence-based policy solutions to sustainably end hunger and malnutrition and reduce poverty. The Institute conducts research, communicates results, optimizes partnerships, and builds capacity to ensure sustainable food production, promote healthy food systems, improve markets and trade, transform agriculture, build resilience, and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is considered in all of the Institute’s work. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world, including development implementers, public institutions, the private sector, and farmers ’ organizations, to ensure that local, national, regional, and global food policies are based on evidence. CGIAR RESEARCH PROGRAM ON POLICIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND MARKETS The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) is a ten-year initiative to identify ways in which the foundations for decisionmaking in food systems can be strengthened to serve the interests of poor producers and consumers. When policies, institutions, and markets fail, key public goods and services are undersupplied, incentives are biased against agriculture, consumers pay too much for food, and relationships that create wealth are ruptured. PIM’s researchers seek solutions to these problems. The program combines the resources of 12 CGIAR centers and numerous international