IFPRI Remote Users
Most of IFPRI’s Library electronic resources are available to IFPRI staff when traveling or in country offices. The Library offers Remote Access listings for Journals and Databases . Remote users will be asked to supply their IFPRI user login and password when first attempting to access a resource that requires authentication.
Resources marked "Contact IFPRI-library" are available only through request to IFPRI staff.
Recommended Databases
EconLit™ with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 560 journals, including the American Economic Journals, Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP), Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and American Economic Review (AER).
Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge)
Web of Science is a platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research.
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AGRICOLA
United States Department of Agriculture- National Agricultural Library online public access catalog.
Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD)
A collection of available public data on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It contains data for over 50 countries. AMAD Online is available to subscribers for free.
Maintained by Australian scholar and agricultural analyst, John Chudleigh, independent agricultural analyses and reports for an audience of agricultural producers, processors, marketers, commodity analysts, students and any others interested in a better knowledge of the trends and structure of the world's agricultural industries.
AGRIS
International Information System for Agricultural science and technology. Worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature, complied from 150 centers in 65 countries.
AGROVOC -Multilingual agricultural thesaurus includes terms covering food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment, etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts.
Austrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grants
Grants.at is an initiative of Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW); and Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH). It is the biggest online database for scholarships and research grants.
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BACI (Base pour l/Analyse du Commerce International)
BACI is the World trade database developed by the CEPII at a high level of product disaggregation. This resource is for the exclusive use/access of IFPRI researchers. Please contact ifpri-library@cgiar.org for access.
BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
Europe’s largest research collection on economic and social development materials in Europe.
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Cambridge University Press- Journals
Cambridge University Press publishes more than 380 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
Center for Communication Programs (CCP)
Resources from John Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.
China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database
Mass digitization of China Knowledge resources, as well as creating the platform for global dissemination and value-added services.
Scientific literature digital library that can be used to search for documents and for citations by title, author, and subject. Provided by the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State and NEC Research Institute.
Comprised of several exchanges - CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX - offers the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.
Cost of Cultivation/Production & Related Data
Compiled by the Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture.
Information system for food and agriculture statistics at regional, national and sub national levels, compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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The Harvard Dataverse Network is open to all scientific data from all disciplines worldwide. It includes the world's largest collection of social science research data.
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Data from USAID's Demographic Health Surveys Program.
An interactive food security portal for information on development and poverty reduction.
Digital Library of the Commons
A gateway to the international literature on the commons, common-pool resources, and common property.
Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)
The database presents figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners as well as area and world aggregates showing trade statistics from the IMF.
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EconLit™ with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 560 journals, including the American Economic Journals, Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP), Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and American Economic Review (AER).
Search the world’s largest collection of online economics working papers, journal articles, and software.
European Information System on Agricultural Research for Development (ARD)
The web-based Information System on European Agricultural Research for Development (ARD). It gathers data on European ARD organizations, funding, projects, training, experts, news and events to portray a Global ARD Landscape.
Examine is the largest database of nutrition and supplement research on the internet. Examine is structured around 25 broad health categories, containing hundreds of conditions. Interventions (like supplements and diets) are studied for measurable changes in specific outcomes (like LDL or blood pressure).
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FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.
The FAO Statistical Yearbook provides a selection of indicators on food and agriculture by region.
Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI-MU)
The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI-MU) provides objective analysis of markets and policies.
Food Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)
Access to technical publications on tropical agriculture, with an emphasis on low cost technology for small farms, focusing on the Asia Pacific Region.
Developed by The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit.
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GIEWS Food Price Data and Analysis Tool
Monitors food prices, compiled by the FAO.
Global Health Observatory Data Repository
World Health Organization's main health-related statistics repository.
A collection of data covering income distribution, energy consumption, water resources, dwellings, migration, land use, food production, nutrition, and life expectancy.
Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
Government Finance Statistics (GFS) - IMF
GFS presents combined statistics on detailed revenues and expenditures for all levels of government.
GTAP is a global network of researchers and policy makers conducting quantitative analysis of international policy issues. For access (restricted to IFPRI staff), please send an email to ifpri-library@cgiar.org
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Captured the people behind the most influential publications in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences.
Information on resources and materials from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.
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Research papers in economics.
International Development Statistics (IDS)
Covers bilateral, multilateral and private donors’ aid (ODA) and other resource flows to developing countries. Split into two databases: Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and DAC Annual Aggregates database; which are accessible through QWIDS and OECD.Stat
Comprehensive statistical information on fertilizer & raw materials supply and fertilizer consumption, compiled by the International Fertilizer Association (IFA).
Includes IFPRI Datasets.
The IMF DataMapper iallows access to visualize, compare, and download data from a collection of IMF datasets, including a wide selection of regional and country economic indicators.
Subscribers to IMF Data can use this powerful new tool to access authoritative, harmonized global statistical databases: International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade, Balance of Payments, Government Finance Statistics.
India - Agricultural Statistics
The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), an attached office of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation in India.
Home grown abstracts and citation database, with multidisciplinary objective information/knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals.
For access, click on IP log-in.
An information portal that provides socio-economic statistics of India.
Publisher's online portal to scholarly research.
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Jisc Library Hub Discover exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries.
Access to the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund's Library Network.
Available to IFPRI Staff only. Registration or Login are required to access the Thomson Reuters suite of is provided by IFPRI: Sign in or Register with your IFPRI email. Contact ifpri-library@cgiar.org for more guidance.
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The Lens serves almost all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Living Standards Measurement Studies (LSMS)
The LSMS multi-purpose survey collects data on many dimensions of household and individual wellbeing to assess household welfare, understand household behavior and evaluate the effect of various government policies on the living conditions of people in low- and middle-income countries.
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A database developed jointly by ITC (UNCTAD-WTO, Geneva) and CEPII (Paris), providing disaggregated, exhaustive and bilateral measurement of applied tariff duties, taking regional agreements and trade preferences exhaustively into account.
The premier source of information for and about the microfinance industry including research and publications.
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National Academies Press (NAP)
More than 3,000 reports from the National Academies are available online free for the reading.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Economic research working papers.
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Catalog of digital resources from open archive collections.
Searches across information in a wide range of subjects in 12 databases including: ArticleFirst, ECO, and WorldCat.
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022
Brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations and input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets.
statistics, detailed support estimates for both OECD and transition economies and a detailed framework for quantifying the economics of agriculture.
- This service includes the following databases:
- OECD FAO Agricultural Outlook
- Agricultural Policies Monitoring and Evaluation
- Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSEs/CSEs)
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PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central, and publisher web sites.
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Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is a consortium of 32 universities in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The repository includes RUFORUM research, e-learning and OER courses, and other relevant information.
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Global site for news, views and information on science, technology and the developing world.
A leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Includes journals and country scientific indicators developed from the Scopus database.
Published every Friday both on the Web, and by email subscription, the Scout Report provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable STEM and humanities resources on the Internet. Our team of librarians and subject matter experts selects, researches, and annotates each resource.
The SIDALC Alliance provides access to information generated throughout the Americas and stored in Agricultural Institutes, its libraries and other related information centers. Its Megadatabase contains some 2.7 million reference materials, including: books, magazines, and journals, theses and reports, as well as 250.000 full text documents.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Disseminates social science research worldwide and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
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Publishes and archives dissertations and theses, sells copies on demand, and maintains the bibliographic record for over two million doctoral dissertations.
UN Commodity Trade Statistics (UN COMTRADE)
Free unlimited access is available for all users through free downloading services. For technical reasons, a download limit of 50,000 data records per query is currently necessary. There is no limit on the number of queries. For further access (restricted to IFPRI staff), please send an email to ifpri-library@cgiar.org
UNCTAD- Trade Analysis Branch (TAB)
Research and analysis on international trade focuses on policy issues of particular importance for developing countries.
A unique and powerful tool, an internet-based data service useful for global community, has been developed by the Statistics Division of the United Nations
University of Queensland International Comparisons Database (UQICD)
A dedicated website designed to provide an interface to download international comparisons data on extrapolated purchasing power parities and real incomes covering 181 countries and the years 1970 to 2012.
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Agricultural search engine—searches in over 750,000 agricultural web pages.
Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge)
Web of Science is a platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research.
World Bank Development Indicators
The premier annual compilation of data about development. Includes approximately 800 indicators organized in six section: World View, People, Environment, Economy, State and Markets, and Global Links.
World Economic and Financial Surveys
World Input-Output Database (WIOD)
The World Input-Output Database (WIOD) consists of a series of databases and covers 27 EU countries and 13 other major countries in the world for the period from 1995 to 2011.
World Integrated Trade Solutions (WITS)
Software developed by the World Bank that allows access and information retrieval of trade, tariff, and non-tarriff measures from: UN Comtrade, UNCTAD TRAINS, WTO, IDB, CTS, the World Bank and the Center for International Business, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College Global Preferential Trade Agreements Database. For access (restricted to IFPRI staff), please send an email to ifpri-library@cgiar.o