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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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Risk of food shortage when the coronavirus stops export (Omvarlden)

April 02, 2020


Omvarlden (Sweden) published an article on the risk of food shortages when trade stops due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The article quoted the IFPRI blog, COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security by Senior Research Fellows Joseph GlauberDavid LabordeWill Martin, and Division Director Rob Vos, stating there is no shortage of food in the world and there are larger stocks of staple goods such as cereals than we had in 2008. In addition, the harvests may be good, but there is a risk of lack of labor to harvest and then export obstacles can stop exports to consumers all over the world. 

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