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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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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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