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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.

Unless policy shifts, climate change puts human health at risk, finds RTI study (WRAL Tech Wire)

May 20, 2021


WRAL Techwire published an article on the study from Bayer, RTI, and IFPRI that projects global chronic hunger unless the policy is put in place to combat the negative effects that climate change could have on the availability and access to nutritious food. Study researcher and Senior Scientist, Timothy Sulser said, “Climate change exacerbates the pressures on food systems to deliver healthy diets to everyone but investing in food systems can reduce the years lost that we project.” 

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