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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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UN’s Guterres wants EU to ease Belarus sanctions. The EU isn’t so sure (POLITICO)

March 22, 2023


“Most EU countries want to counter the narrative, heralded by Russia, that EU sanctions are preventing food and fertilizers from reaching food-insecure countries,” writes POLITICO in an article discussing fertilizer supply issues to developing countries from Russia and Belarus.

The publication quotes IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that, despite the doomsday predictions, “there is no evidence that global agricultural productivity has gone down because of the fertilizer disruptions.”

Read the entire article.

Republished in Flipboard, News Now (UK and Belarus), and TV3 (Latvia)