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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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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.

Agri-food systems, key to combat hunger and malnutrition (Grupo Mundo Ejecutivo)

May 20, 2021


Grupo Mundo Ejectuvio (Mexico) published an article on food systems and Latin America and the Caribbean. Within the framework of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report, the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, called on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to design public policies of long-term to transform agri-food systems and address the vulnerability caused by the health crisis. Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla highlighted the importance of creating financing schemes to reactivate and transform food systems to reduce the food crisis, and at the same time boost agri-food trade. 

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