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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.

Tropentag 2018

Global Food Security and Food Safety – The Role of Universities

Ghent University

St. Pietersnieuwstraat 33

Gent, Belgium

September 16 to 19, 2018

  • 1:00 – 5:30 pm (Europe/Brussels)
  • 7:00 – 11:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 4:30 – 9:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development (TROPENTAG). The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), which is led by IFPRI, will be highlighted at the conference.   

 

Tropentag 2018 will be organised by the University of Ghent, Belgium in close cooperation KU Leuven and Antwerp University (both Belgium). The conference venue will be in Ghent, Belgium. All students, Ph.D. students, scientists, extension workers, decision makers, politicians and practical farmers, interested and engaged in agricultural research and rural development in transition and developing countries are invited to participate and to contribute.

 

The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation worldwide.

 

IFPRI Participants:

 

Keynote Speaker (September 17, 2018 — 1:30pm – 4:10pm)

  • Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator and A4NH County Coordinator in Ethiopia, IFPRI

Oral Presentation (September 18, 2018 — 10:30am – 12:00pm)

  • John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) IFPRI
  • Elena Martinez, Research Analyst, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) IFPRI

Oral Presentation (September 18, 2018 — 2:00pm – 3:30pm)

  • John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) IFPRI
  • Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator and A4NH County Coordinator in Ethiopia, IFPRI

Posters

Click here for full agenda.