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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

To tackle climate change, rethink our food systems (Shine)

November 28, 2019


Shine featured an op-ed by Director General Shenggen Fan and Kathleen Rogers (Earth Day Network). They wrote that the current state of our food systems is unsustainable. To ensure global food security and sustainable food practices in an ever-growing world, we need an approach that reexamines our global food systems through the lens of regional resources, economics and culture.  And working for change at the ground level can help fight hunger and food inequality firsthand

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