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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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.

Is air pollution making you dumber? (Ecofriend.com)

January 28, 2020


Ecofriend.com published an article on air pollution and cognitive abilities. An IFPRI study conducted by team head Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang discovered that the math and verbal scores declined with increasing exposure to pollution, and the decline was more pronounced in elderly, less educated men. Air pollution took a bigger toll on verbal scores rather than math, and men were most affected than women.

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