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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.

Food Systems and COVID-19: Irish development organizations’ role in building back better

March 26, 2021

  • 11:00 – 1:00 pm (Europe/London)
  • 7:00 – 9:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 4:30 – 6:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI’s Director General Johan Swinnen is participating in the UCC Centre for Global Development and IFIAD three-part webinar series on Food Systems and Nutrition. The series aims to highlight work being done by Irish development institutions, and generate discussion on how to move forward looking toward the UN Food Systems Summit.

    This webinar will highlight vulnerabilities in food systems exposed by COVID-19, identify key elements of strategies to “build back better” and will present evidence of food security along with examples of applied research.