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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.

African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)

Feed the Cities, Grow the Continent – Leveraging Urban Food Markets to Achieve Sustainable Food Systems in Africa

September 8 to 11, 2020

  • 9:00 – 8:00 pm (Africa/Kigali)
  • 3:00 – 2:00 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 12:30 – 11:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the African Green Revolution Forum 2020 (AGRF).

Considered the world’s most important and impactful forum for African agriculture, AGRF brings together stakeholders in the agricultural landscape to take practical actions and share lessons that will move African agriculture forward as sustained agricultural transformation will remain at the centre of driving Africa’s progress and development.

PRE-SESSION PARTNER EVENTS

Round Table: Sustainable Agricultural Intensification to Feed the Cities and Grow Africa (September 07 — 1:00pm – 2:00pm)

Organized by Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI)

Excellence in Agronomy (September 07 — 3:00pm – 4:45pm)

Co-organized by BMGF, USAID, BMZ, DFID, NORAD, DGD and IITA

Agriculture Technologies for Feeding Cities (September 07 — 5:00pm – 6:30pm)

Co-organized by TAAT, IITA, AfDB, BMGF, ICRISAT, ICARDA, IITA, CIMMYT, ICIPE, IFPRI, FARA, NARES, IWMI, ILRI, AfricaRice, WorldFish, AAFT and Private Sector

PLENARY SESSION 

Sequence 2: Growing Africa’s Food – African Leaders Unpack Nutrition Indicators (September 09 — 5:00pm – 6:00pm)

PARALLEL SESSION

Strengthening Agri-Food Data Systems [Regional Food Trade] (September 10 — 11:00am – 1:00pm)

Co-organized by Chairs: DFID and AGRA, with support from BMGF, CTA, IFPRI, Kofi Annan Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, AfDB, USAID