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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.

The 16th China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) – IFPRI Annual Conference

Bridging Sustainability: Integrating Green Finance for Agricultural and Rural Development
Co-organized by China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER), IFPRI and Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU)

Changsha

Hunan, China

October 18 to 20, 2024

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (Asia/Shanghai)
  • 9:00 – 5:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 6:30 – 2:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) and IFPRI are delighted to announce the Sixteenth CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference, co-organized with Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU). The theme of 2024 conference is Bridging Sustainability: Integrating Green Finance for Agricultural and Rural Development. Internationally and nationally renowned scholars have been invited to present and discuss their insights at the conference and more than two hundred researchers from China and around the world are anticipated to participate in person.

For more information, please click HERE.

IFPRI Participants

  • Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI; Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR
  • Kevin Chen, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI