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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Hiroyuki Takeshima

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Hiroyuki Takeshima is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, based in Washington, DC, and has worked in IFPRI’s Nigeria office. His research focuses on agricultural technology adoption under climate change, including agricultural mechanization, seed and varietal technologies, agrifood system transformation and rural economic transformation, public investments, conflict, gender, and agriculture–nutrition linkages. His work covers Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.

Hiroyuki is a coeditor of two IFPRI books, The Nigerian Rice Economy: Policy Options for Transforming Production, Marketing, and Trade and An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn from Asia? He is also the 2018 recipient of the Nils Westermarck Award of the International Association of Agricultural Economics. He obtained a PhD in agriculture and consumer economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


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