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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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Food security panics governments as Ukraine war blocks supplies (Bloomberg) 

March 20, 2022


Bloomberg published an article stating that nations around the world are waking up to the threat of a global food crisis and taking steps to secure their own supplies.  The Group of Seven nations and the United Nations’ FAO are urging leaders to keep trade flows open, warning that protectionism can push prices higher and lead to empty shelves in countries dependent on imports. “Any stability that you get in the country that’s putting up the export ban is an instability exported to the rest of the world,” said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow. “It has a cascading effect.” Republished in Yahoo Finance,  Times Live (South Africa), Independent (Ireland).  

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