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Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She co-leads a research program that examines how closing the gap between men’s and women’s ownership and control of assets may lead to better development outcomes.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Should We Bet the Farm on Ag Robots? (Yahoo! News)

November 28, 2016


Yahoo! News republished a feature article from Take Part.com on the future of agriculture, quoting IFPRI Senior Researcher David Spielman. The article weighs the implementation of technology in farming, which has proven successful on large farms, but could do more harm than good on small farmsSpielman was quoted saying, “[w]e need to be looking at new technologies on a case-by-case basis to understand their productivity and welfare effects on society and environment[.]”

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