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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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Doubts raised over US claim of $40bn China farm purchases (Financial Times)

December 14, 2019


Financial Times (London) reported on the U.S.-China trade negotiations. United States claims that China will purchase US$40 billion in U.S. agricultural goods were greeted with skepticism. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said silence on China’s commitments by individual commodity could prove confusing to farmers deciding what to plant. “The details still remain very obscure.”

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