International Food Policy Research Institute

What International Food Policy Research Institute does

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is a private, nonprofit international research organization founded in 1975 and headquartered in Washington, DC. It provides research-based policy solutions aimed at sustainably reducing poverty and ending hunger and malnutrition in developing countries, employing 480+ research staff from more than 70 countries and operating through headquarters, an Africa Regional Office in Nairobi, and country offices in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, and Sudan. IFPRI is a Research Center of CGIAR, the world's largest publicly funded agricultural innovation network.

Its core offerings include an open-access library of 25,000+ research publications and datasets, the Food Security Portal for real-time food security and market monitoring, a suite of economic and foresight modeling tools (including Computable General Equilibrium and Social Accounting Matrix frameworks), and proprietary metrics such as the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). IFPRI also recently deployed an AI Search Agent on its website to facilitate natural-language discovery of its research. Its go-to-market relies on direct engagement with national governments, multilateral agencies (WFP, AfDB, World Bank, UNU-WIDER), CGIAR sister centers (notably CIMMYT), and academic institutions through policy seminars, country strategy support programs, joint reports, and an extensive digital dissemination footprint spanning blogs, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube, and active social channels.

IFPRI's revenue model is grant-based: it receives core funding through the CGIAR system complemented by bilateral and multilateral donor grants, foundation funding (e.g., Seeding The Future Foundation), and project-level partnerships with development banks. All research outputs are distributed freely, with no commercial pricing. Strategic partners include the World Bank, AfDB, WFP, UNU-WIDER, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, CIMMYT, IWMI, AMIS, IICA, SANEM, and Dvara E-Registry, reflecting IFPRI's position as a central node in the global food policy research ecosystem.

Name

International Food Policy Research Institute

Legal name

International Food Policy Research Institute

Website

https://ifpri.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

IFPRI is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit research institute founded in 1975 and part of the CGIAR network. It delivers policy research, modeling tools, datasets, and the Food Security Portal to governments, multilateral agencies, and researchers across 70+ countries to reduce poverty and end hunger.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Policy Research

NAICS

Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities (92614)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Nutrition Governance, Policy & Coordination (SUN, National Plans) (BPADAJAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition Technical Assistance (BPADAEAG), Economic Research, Statistics & Policy Advisory (BPADAMAJ), Nutrition & Food Security (Global Health) NGOs (HLAJAKAH), Nutrition Surveillance, Assessments & Early Warning Systems (BPADAJAF), Food Security, Agriculture & Nutrition Aid Programs (BPADABAD), Resilient Livelihoods & Climate-Smart Food Security (BPADAJAH)

Keywords

• Food policy research
• Agricultural economics
• Food security analysis
• Nutrition policy
• Agrifood systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices14 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. CGIAR Core Funding: IFPRI is a CGIAR Research Center and receives core funding through the CGIAR system, the world's largest publicly funded agricultural research network, to conduct global food security and agricultural policy research.
2. Donor and Funder Grants: IFPRI receives grants and funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, development banks, foundations, and government agencies to fund specific research programs and projects.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

IFPRI conducts research-based policy analysis on food security, nutrition, agricultural development, climate, trade, and gender equity for developing countries. It produces publications, datasets, and proprietary modeling tools (computable general equilibrium models, spatial/remote sensing models, the Food Security Portal, and the WEAI family of women's empowerment metrics), and delivers policy advisory through country and regional strategy support programs.

Product overview

IFPRI is a global agricultural research institute that provides research-based policy solutions to reduce poverty and end hunger. Rather than a unified commercial product, IFPRI offers a portfolio of research services, data platforms, and analytical tools including the AI Search Agent for discovering research, the Food Security Portal for real-time food security monitoring, Modeling Tools for economic and foresight analysis, and an extensive library of publications and datasets. These offerings are delivered through IFPRI's website and contribute to CGIAR's global agricultural innovation network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Search Agent

Quantifiable outcome

• Bangladesh's Food for Education program increased school participation by up to 30% due to IFPRI research-informed design.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 February 2026IFPRI and CIMMYT signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deepen collaboration on strategic research and policy initiatives addressing global food security challenges. Joint research focuses on scaling innovations in agronomy, mechanization, crop breeding, and nutrition, as well as improving impact evaluation, market analysis, and policy analysis methodologies. Both organizations are part of CGIAR.
• CGIARcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI is a CGIAR Research Center, part of the world's largest publicly funded agricultural research network. IFPRI researchers collaborate closely with researchers from other CGIAR Centers, and the work contributes to the CGIAR mission of delivering science and innovation that advance the transformation of food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis.
• Dvara E-RegistrycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI and Dvara E-Registry partnered on the Insurance Backed Loans for Climate-Smart Agriculture initiative, selected for the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance 2026 incubation cycle. The USD 90 million facility integrates picture-based crop insurance, AI-enabled credit scoring using satellite verification, and digital monitoring to help India's smallholder farmers access credit and insurance.
• WFP (World Food Programme)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWFP and IFPRI released a joint report advocating for innovative investment to revitalize Nigeria's food system amid food insecurity and conflict, emphasizing targeted investments, policy reforms, and public-private partnerships to support agricultural recovery.
• AfDB (African Development Bank)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfDB and IFPRI released a joint report with WFP advocating for innovative investment in Nigeria's food system, with a focus on targeted investments, policy reforms, and public-private partnerships for agricultural recovery in northern Nigeria.
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI and ECA co-organized the book launch event for 'Agricultural Trade at a Crossroads' and collaborated on the CGIAR Science Program on Policy Innovations to discuss the future of agricultural trade and trade governance.
• Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI co-organizes the IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series with AMIS, a G20 Technical Platform providing market monitoring and analysis. These seminars examine food commodity markets, crop conditions, and macroeconomic factors affecting global food security.
• UNU-WIDER (United Nations University World Institute for Development)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI and UNU-WIDER signed a memorandum of understanding to advance research and policy in fragile contexts. The partnership reflects a shared commitment to generating high-quality, policy-relevant research and ensuring that evidence informs decision-making in challenging environments.
• African Development Bank GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfrican Development Bank's Director of Gender, Women and Civil Society participated in IFPRI's policy seminar on inequality and women's empowerment, demonstrating collaborative engagement on gender equality research.
• Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIICA is listed as a partner in IFPRI's Trade Tensions project analyzing the impact of US-China trade tensions on Latin America and the Caribbean.
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI and IWMI jointly developed the 2020-21 Social Accounting Matrix for Pakistan, integrating water and agricultural economic modeling to support policy analysis of water-food-economy interactions.
• South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFPRI and SANEM jointly developed the 2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Bangladesh following IFPRI's Standard Nexus SAM approach for robust cross-country comparisons.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• International Food Policy Research Institute (CGIAR sister centers - CIMMYT): CIMMYT is a fellow CGIAR Research Center focused on maize and wheat improvement; it signed a 2026 MoU with IFPRI to deepen joint research on agronomy, crop breeding, and policy — making it the most direct peer in the same CGIAR ecosystem.
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI): IWMI is a fellow CGIAR Research Center focused on water-agriculture issues; IFPRI and IWMI jointly developed Pakistan's 2020-21 Social Accounting Matrix, reflecting deep methodological and policy overlap.
• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) - alternative mapping: Already listed as the top peer; mentioned again here as an explicit CGIAR sibling with the strongest collaborative and methodological overlap on impact evaluation and policy analysis.

Broad incumbents

• CGIAR System Organization: CGIAR is the umbrella network of which IFPRI is a member; it sets the 2025-2030 portfolio, pools donor funding, and coordinates 15 research centers — directly comparable as IFPRI's operating network and parent funding entity.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): FAO is the UN's primary food and agriculture agency, producing policy research, statistics, and global assessments that directly overlap with IFPRI's mandate in food security, nutrition, and agricultural development.
• World Food Programme (WFP): WFP is the UN's food-assistance agency and a Core IFPRI partner (joint Nigeria food-system report); it conducts and consumes food security analysis at global scale, making it a closely comparable multilateral in the same food policy domain.
• World Bank Agriculture and Food Global Practice: The World Bank funds and produces large-scale agricultural economics research and policy advisory — comparable to IFPRI in audience (governments) and analytical depth, and a listed IFPRI partner on the Trade Tensions project.
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): IFAD is a UN specialized agency and international financial institution that finances rural agricultural development; it funds and consumes the same policy research IFPRI produces, with overlapping client governments.
• African Development Bank (AfDB): AfDB is a Core IFPRI partner that co-produces food-system investment analysis (e.g., Nigeria) and is itself a major producer of agricultural economics research across Africa.

Others

• Brookings Institution: Brookings is a global think tank producing policy research that intersects with IFPRI's food security, trade, and development economics work; comparable as a fellow mission-driven research institution publishing open-access policy analysis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ifpri
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/IFPRI
• Facebookfacebook.com/ifpri.org
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/international-food-policy-research-institute-ifpri
• Instagraminstagram.com/ifpri

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors3 records

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