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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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The world’s mothers are watching ever more babies die of starvation (Foreign Policy)

January 22, 2020


Foreign Policy published an article on malnutrition. Malnutrition is passed from one generation to the next between mother and child—unless someone commits to stopping the deadly cycle. A 2019 IFPRI study found that out of 60,000 first-time mothers in India those children born to teenage mothers were smaller and had a lower height-to-weight ratio on average than those with adult parents.

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