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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Eliot Jones-Garcia

Eliot Jones-Garcia is a Senior Research Analyst with the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on human-AI interaction, user-centered design, and the ethical and responsible development of AI. Eliot is currently finalizing a PhD on the digitalization of agricultural advisory services at Wageningen University & Research.

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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 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector(PreventionWeb) 

May 20, 2020


PreventionWeb published an article on what is known about the COVID-19 crisis as related to agriculture including 1) food supply chains and markets in the developing world are at risk. The article mentions two new COVID-19-related IFPRI tools—the COVID-19 Food Trade Policy Tracker and the COVID-19 Food Price Monitor, and 2) the need for nutritious foods. IFPRI research, Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: A global analysis was quoted, “In the face of drastic declines in income, vulnerable households will quickly give up nutrient-rich foods in order to preserve their caloric intake.”