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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 has left 370 million school children without their one reliable meal -what can be done? (Mirage News)

May 24, 2021


Mirage News (Australia) published an article on the effects of COVID-19 on child development. The Research Consortium is the first initiative to be launched as part of the Global School Feeding Coalition, which is being established by a growing group of member states and aims at making sure that every child has access to school meals in every country by 2030. The analysis and data that underpin the Coalition for School Feeding are based on 15 years of research by partners that include IFPRI. (Reach 63K). Also published in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 

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