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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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Food security panics governments as Ukraine war blocks supplies (Bloomberg) 

March 20, 2022


Bloomberg published an article stating that nations around the world are waking up to the threat of a global food crisis and taking steps to secure their own supplies.  The Group of Seven nations and the United Nations’ FAO are urging leaders to keep trade flows open, warning that protectionism can push prices higher and lead to empty shelves in countries dependent on imports. “Any stability that you get in the country that’s putting up the export ban is an instability exported to the rest of the world,” said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow. “It has a cascading effect.” Republished in Yahoo Finance,  Times Live (South Africa), Independent (Ireland).  

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