Agricultural, Economic, and Human Development: Joint Research Contributions of Japan and International Food Policy Research Institute

Over the past four decades, IFPRI Japanese Researchers (IFPRI-JR) significantly contributed to knowledge advancement for various agrifood system issues in ways that are central IFRRI’s mandates and complementary whole CGIAR system. This paper summarizes IFPRI-JR’s key work, its evolution over time, collective contributions. In earlier years especially up 2000s, policy market analysis tools were applied agricultural reforms price policies Japan elsewhere. More recently, respond food crisis 2007-08, research building empirical evidence on developing countries, including identification of failures appropriate role public sector goods provision presence externalities economies scale. time analytical scope expanded institutional resource management markets, human capital formation, gender issues, transformation, nutrition security. Finally, promising technologies know-how (i) identified sustainable development, (ii) transferred countries field global security their effectiveness shown. Collectively, IFPRI-JR have a long track record addressing emerging as well long-term structural both world at large.