IFPRI will continue current work on policies for sustainable management of natural resources for food security, focusing on land and water and strong attention to gender dimensions. IFPRI will continue to carry out water policy research, emphasizing water rights, economic incentives, and institutional change, including cooperative research under the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. New research will look at policy issues related to the climate change-food security-water security nexus together with Theme 1. IFPRI will continue to focus on the role of property rights and collective action in the management of natural resources for food and agriculture, in close collaboration with its CGIAR sister centers, especially under the systemwide program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi).

• Water Resource Allocation: Productivity and Environmental Impacts
  Leaders: Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen Dick
• Land Resource Management for Poverty Reduction
  Leader: John L. Pender
• CGIAR System-Wide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
  Leader: Ruth Meinzen-Dick
• Gender and Assets (exploratory)