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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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Worst drought in 16 years threatens food supplies in North Korea – UN (Reuters)

July 21, 2017


The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an article on food security in North Korea, which highlighted the Global Hunger Index. The country is facing severe food shortages because of an extreme drought. The article cites the GHI findings that in 2016 two in every five people in North Korea were undernourished. The article ran in 17 other publications including major outlets such as The Irish Times, MSN, UK’s The Daily Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, and CGTN

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