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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.

COVID-19 and its long shadow on global food security (Ecoticias) 

August 05, 2020


Ecoticias (Spain) published an article on the Science Magazine article, COVID-19 risks to global food security by IFPRI researchers David Laborde, Will Martin, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos. The journal articles warns consequences of the coronavirus crisis on food worldwide: rising prices of fruits and vegetables, queues of people in food banks. The solutions are to ensure the production and distribution of food, guaranteeing the safety of workers. Compliance with these measures depends on financial resources. “It will be important that high-income countries and international organizations contribute as much as they can to support poor countries with financial needs.” (Reach 41K). Also published in La Flecha (Spain) (Reach 500), Hipertextual (Spain) (Reach 371K), Noticias de Gipuzkoa (Spain) (Reach 9K), Deia (Spain) (Reach 96K), Technoxplora (Spain) (Reach 316K), and more than a dozen other published articles from major outlets.  

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