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KREI, IFPRI to Strengthen Research Cooperation
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Writer KREI
Date 2018.08.13

KREI, IFPRI to Strengthen Research Cooperation

The Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI, President Kim Changgil) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, Director General Shenggen Fan) on August 9 agreed to extend for three years the memorandum of understanding signed in July 2015 and to strengthen research cooperation at IFPRI, Washington, US.

The two institutes also agreed to actively cooperate in the following areas: continuous issues of agriculture such as an increase in agricultural productivity, agricultural sustainability, and rural development; and the fields that have recently received attention, including innovation, data, food, North Korea, and trade.

The two institutes agreed on concrete plans for practical cooperation as follows. First, the researcher exchange program between the two institutes will be expanded. Second, multilateral cooperation will be strengthened by including the following institutions that KREI and IFPRI have cooperated with in partners: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; the World Bank; the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service; the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and the Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan. Third, KREI and IFPRI continue exchanges by attending an international conference which each of the two institutes holds this year. IFPRI will participate in a tentatively named “International Conference on Agricultural Innovation” that KREI and the Dutch government will hold in Korea on November 5 and 6. Also, KREI will take part in an international conference on “Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition” held by IFPRI in Bangkok, Thailand, November 28. 


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