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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.

Food price inflation remains high around world: WB (Business Insider) 

March 15, 2023


“The World Bank in recent data shows that the domestic food price inflation in almost all low-and middle-income countries remains high across the world between October 2022 and February 2023,” writes the Business Insider (Bangladesh).

The report mentions that “one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reviewed experiences of the past year and remaining uncertainties about food security in the future.

The war in Ukraine jeopardized more than one-third of the world wheat trade, 17 percent of the world maize trade, and almost 75 percent of the world sunflower trade, causing prices of wheat futures to jump almost 60 percent within a week of the war’s outbreak; corn and soybean prices were up more than 15 percent.”

Read the full article.

Also published in Zimbabwe Mail as “Zimbabwe remains highest on food price inflation globally says World Bank.”