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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 pushes world “off track” to achieve Zero Hunger goal by 2030 (Nutrition Insight) 

July 14, 2020


Nutrition Insight published an article on ending hunger. Global hunger rates are on the rise, despite the UN’s aim to achieve SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) by 2030. This is the primary concern raised in the 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report. A joint project by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), IFPRI, and Cornell University), The Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger project used data from the UN report to highlight that an additional US$10 billion is urgently needed to prevent millions more people becoming food insecure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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