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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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Child malnutrition worsens, how anti-slaughter laws hurt farmers, IIT-Madras shutdown (Audio Boom)

December 19, 2020


Audio Boom presented a podcast on how child malnutrition has worsened in many states, how strict anti-cattle slaughter laws can be disastrous for dairy farmers (16:16), and why IIT-Madras is going under a temporary lockdown (27:02). Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon was interviewed about findings of the phase of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) that reveals that several states across the country have reversed course and recorded worsening levels of child malnutrition. 

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