The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) works with partners from around the world to address several challenges we face today. These challenges are categorized into five divisions: Global Health, Global Development Division; Global Growth & Opportunity Division; United States Division; and Global Policy & Advocacy Division. BMGF seeks to understand inequalities throughout the world and works to create change through its influence and investments.
Projects
Strengthening the Economic Evaluation of Strategies for Nutrition (SEEMS-Nutrition)
SEEMS-Nutrition supports the scaling up of future solutions to enhance and sustain nutritious food systems in a rapidly evolving environment of decreasing child and maternal……
South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative (SANI)
The South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative (SANI), aims to bring data and evidence to policy and program communities for supporting decision-making for optimal nutrition for……
Political Economy of Large-Scale Food Fortification
Despite broad acknowledgement by the research community that large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a cost-effective intervention to address micronutrient deficiencies, the uptake and implementation of……
Publications
Journal Article
The impact of excluding adverse neonatal outcomes on the creation of gestational weight gain charts among women from low- and middle-income countries with normal and overweight BMI
Working Paper
Two decades after Maputo, What’s in the CAADP ten percent? Determinants and effects of the composition of government agriculture expenditure in Africa
Working Paper
Africa cannot achieve the Malabo Declaration commitments: Statistical impossibility or logical fallacy
Events
Release of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ghana
Event: August 24, 2023 – 5:30 AM- 7:00 AM EDT. IFPRI is co-hosting the release of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ghana under the Nexus Project in partnership with the Ghana Statistical Service and the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research.
A Decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Lessons from Using Empowerment Metrics
Virtual Event: Feb 16, 2022 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST. This Special Event will reflect on what has been accomplished and learned by applying WEAI and pro-WEAI in diverse contexts.
Tackling child undernutrition at scale: Insights from national and subnational success cases
Virtual Event: APR 1, 2021 – 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT. Lessons from these deep research programs offer hope that big change is possible and provide specific direction for countries striving to accelerate progress on nutrition
Blogs
Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects
A new tool developed by IFPRI and IFAD.
Agrifood Value Chains are Complex Transaction-Linked Networks
Why simplified linear approaches may fall short.
Policy seminar: Scaling up the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) tool
Research on gender and women’s empowerment in food systems and global development is central to IFPRI’s mission. Here we mark International Women’s Day (March 8)—with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress”—with an account of our continuing efforts to develop and deploy metrics on women’s empowerment in agriculture. The 2015 adoption of Sustainable Development Goal […]