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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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Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh

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Dr. Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Unit. His research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on the impact evaluation of different policy interventions on smallholder farm households in developing countries.

Before joining IFPRI, Hailemariam worked as a Departmental Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Oxford University. In collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), he was a Marie-Curie postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Hailemariam received his Ph.D. and MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2015, he was a visiting scholar and research fellow at the East African Social Science Transition (EASST) at the University of California in Berkeley. He also worked as a short-term consultant at the World Bank and a senior consultant at DAI Global (UK).

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How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Evidence from Ethiopia
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July 16, 2025

How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Evidence from Ethiopia

By Kibrom Abay, Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh, Zelalem Terfa, Joseph Karugia, and Clemens Breisinger

Typical survey methods significantly undercount the actual numbers.

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Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: Africa Regional Launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report
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November 14, 2024, 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: Africa Regional Launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report

Despite significant progress in addressing hunger and undernutrition in the early 2000s, malnutrition, in all its forms, remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets remain the primary drivers of many forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Today, the number of people who […]