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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.

David Beasley sounds the fire alarm (Devex Dish) 

May 18, 2022


Devex Dish published an op-ed describing a comment made by the WFP’s Executive Director who sai, distilling the urgency of the global food crisis into a simple message like only David Beasley can: “Right now the house is burning down. We’ve got to make certain we put the fire out before the entire world is on fire.” The 2022 Global Food Policy Report on how food systems are “inseparably linked” to the climate change crisis. Channing Arndt, a lead editor of the Report said, “The world wheat market really doesn’t care why exactly Ukrainian wheat is not being exported from Odesa. It could be because of a terrible drought or … a terrible war.” 


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