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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.

Pandemic of hunger (Nature)

October 12, 2020


Nature published an article on how the COVID-19 is straining African food security, but also presents an opportunity for change. One example is in Ethiopia. According to IFPRI, Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the lockdowns in Ethiopia have disrupted distribution chains for both dairy products and vegetables. The pandemic has also strained household budgets, so families have had to cut back on their consumption of expensive sources of nutrients, such as vegetables. 

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