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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.
researcher spotlight
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 is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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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.
Augustine Iraoya is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. His research focuses on trade, migration, multidimensional poverty, income diversification, rural livelihoods, and food systems.
Prior to joining IFPRI, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) where he worked closely with government, local, national, and regional partners on evidence-based research to inform policymaking. He also worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria where he oversaw undergraduate students’ field studies and taught microeconomics.
He holds a master’s in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.