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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.

2020 South-South Cooperation Forum

Food Security and Agrobiodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and Climate Change

November 30 to December 1, 2020

  • 10:05 – 1:15 pm (Africa/Nairobi)
  • 2:05 – 5:15 am (US/Eastern)
  • 12:35 – 3:45 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI’s Director General Johan Swinnen is participating in the 2020 South-South Cooperation Forum, “Food Security and Agrobiodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and Climate Change”.

The forum builds upon global transformative experiences and good practices, and will explore three themes: 1) “Poverty alleviation: Food and nutrition security,” 2) “Agrobiodiversity and smallholder resilience” and 3) “Food system transformation.”

Keynote (November 30, 2020 — 10:15am – 10:35am EAT)

Theme 1 – Poverty alleviation: Food and nutrition security