How research can support efforts to control avian flu in developing countries: first steps towards a research action plan

Report of an international consultation — The Research Community’s Response to Avian Influenza, with Special Reference to the Needs of Developing Countries, held 14-16 June 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya — organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

CGIAR Research Program 4: Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health

This research program aims to accelerate progress in improving the nutrition and health of poor people by exploiting and enhancing the synergies between agriculture, nutrition, and health through four key research components: value chains, biofortification, control of agriculture-associated diseases, and integrated agriculture, nutrition, and health development programs and policies. With IFPRI and ILRI as co-Lead Centers, this program will also involve 10 other CGIAR Centers. It has an initial 3-year budget of US$191.4 million. The program was approved in December 2011

Report of IFPRI’s Participation in the International Conference on Nutrition

Report by IFPRI's Director General on IFPRI's participation on behalf of the CGIAR in the International Conference on Nutrition held in Rome in December 1992. The report details IFPRI's role in preparations for the conference, including drafting background materials, and collaborating with the UN Sub Committee on Nutrition on the Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation.The document includes Pinstrup Anderson's presentation to the plenary session on the role of agricultural research in meeting future food demand, increasing income and employment for the poor, and sustaining the environment. Attached are three IFPRI press briefings on the effects of CGIAR activities on human nutrition, malnutrition and food supply, and the importance of taking a sustained, long term approach to reducing malnutrition.Agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1993

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Series of five documents comprising IFPRI's response to the changes in its program, mandate, and location prescribed by the CGIAR in its agreement in principal to adopt IFPRI into the CGIAR. Agenda document, CGIAR meeting October-November 1979

Report on IFPRI Activities Related to the International Conference on Population and Development

IFPRI report on its participation, on behalf of the CGIAR, in the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in September 1994. IFPRI hosted a roundtable on population and food supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, and presented the results to the preparatory committee for the Conference. A representative of IFPRI addressed the Plenary Session.There are three appendixes: a summary of the results of the roundtable, recommendations for the draft program of action, and the text of Sohail Malik's remarks to the Conference on behalf of the CGIAR.Agenda document, CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1994