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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.

China has the ability to deal with the risks of the international food market (China Science Daily)

March 31, 2020


ScienceNet (China Science Daily) reported on recent export restrictions many countries have in place. Are these restrictions necessary and is there enough food? In fact, food is enough. Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Director Rob Vos has long tracked and monitored the global food market. He and several colleagues published the blogpost, COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security, stating that there is no shortage of global staple food stocks and that the harvest is expected to be good this year. 

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