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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.

Climate change increases food prices for billions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inside Over)

December 11, 2019


Inside Over reported on food prices and climate change. Worsening climate change is likely to push prices of staple foods much higher. Senior Research Fellows Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey along with colleagues released the study, Affordability of the EAT–Lancet  Reference Diet: A Global Analysis, showing that nearly 1.58 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia who earn an estimated $2.84 per day, cannot afford the recommended diet.

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