PIM leads action-oriented research to equip decision makers with the evidence required to develop food and agricultural policies that better serve the interests of poor producers and consumers, both men and women. The program combines the resources of CGIAR centers and numerous international, regional, and national partners. PIM is a major financial supporter of the Consortium. 

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The Ag-Incentives portal was undertaken as part of, and funded by, the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). PIM is in turn supported by these donors.

PIM Goals and Mission

Today, with more than 7 billion people on earth, and despite prosperity unprec­edented in world history, too many children go to bed hungry with little hope that tomorrow will be different. By the middle of this century, more than 9 billion people will need healthy and nutritious food. The water and land needed to produce food will be under increasing pressure. Agricultural systems will require new knowledge, new investment, and flexibility to adapt quickly to change. The ability to attract investment into agriculture, to deploy it well, and to redeploy it rapidly depends critically on the policies, institutions, and markets that underpin the food system. This is the domain of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), one of the 16 crosscutting research programs of CGIAR.

Sound policies, robust institutions, and well-functioning markets complement technological discovery in agricultural science to ensure that consumers have access to nutritious and affordable food, producers have incentives to plant and harvest, and the myriad participants in complex value chains are well linked in mutually beneficial connections.

PIM leads action-oriented research to equip decision makers with evidence required to develop food and agricultural policies that better serve the interests of poor producers and consumers, both men and women.

Their goal is to link highly motivated researchers with skilled development practitioners and partners. Led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), PIM is a collaboration among 14 CGIAR Research Centers and numerous international, regional, and national partners.

The program is carried out with funding support from governments and aid agencies, both through the CGIAR Fund and bilaterally.  CGIAR is a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. Its science is carried out by the 15 research centers who are members of the CGIAR in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations: www.cgiar.org