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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.

A critical time for trade (Agweek) 

July 09, 2020


Ag Week published an article on trade and agriculture. The article states no one involved in agriculture knows yet what the future of world ag trade will look like. The WTO, the global international organization that deals with the rules of trade between nations. continues to have a vital role in world ag trade. But, said Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber, the WTO has made relatively little progress since 2008, and Trump administration trade policies since 2016 have hampered international trade issues.

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