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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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Feature: Go fish! Minnow ‘nutrient bombs’ deployed to end nutrition (Reuters)

October 18, 2018


Reuters published a news feature on the NutriFish 1000 campaign that aims to improve family nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life by getting pregnant women and children to eat small fish.  The article quoted Director General Shenggen Fan, who busting the commonplace myth that small fish is waste, said that with small fish, one can even eat bones, which have lots of micronutrients.

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