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David Spielman

David Spielman is the director of IFPRI’s Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit and has been with the institute since 2004. His research agenda covers a range of topics including agriculture and rural development policy; agricultural science, technology, and innovation; plant genetic resources and seed systems; agricultural extension and advisory services; and community-driven rural development.

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Opinion: A clear win: Agricultural aid investments yield economic benefits for United States (Agri-pulse)

November 01, 2019


Agri-pulse published a comment by Sylvan Roy on the jointly released by BIFAD, APLU, and IFPRI report, How the United States benefits from agricultural and food security investments in developing countries. The underlying focus of the report articulates the economic benefits to the U.S., but the authors are expansive in their perspective about how such things as what they refer to as “technology spillover” produces benefits for the beneficiaries as well as stimulating commerce for U.S. businesses. 

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