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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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Examining Biden’s farm bankruptcy claim (Fact Check) 

June 02, 2020


Fact Check reported on a claim made by US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden that farm bankruptcies increased last year “due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.” Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said it was impossible to know what caused the bankruptcies because so little information about those farm operations is publicly available. “I don’t think it is knowable. Were they cotton producers? Dairy farms? We just don’t know anything about those farms. We just know they filed bankruptcy under a tax code that is available only to farmers.”  Republished in Brazil Business Today.

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