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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.

High-level Dialogue on Feeding Africa 2021: Leadership to Scale up Successful Innovations

African Development Bank, IFAD, FARA and CGIAR

April 29 to 30, 2021

  • 6:00 – 11:00 am (America/New_York)
  • 12:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 3:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI’s Director General Johan Swinnen is participating in the High-level dialogue on feeding Africa 2021 leadership to scale up successful innovations. This online forum will bring together African heads of state, senior government officials, heads of multilateral development banks, research institutions and more from across Africa and beyond. 

The goal of this event is to secure political commitments at the highest level of leadership to replicate success across the continent. As well as demonstrate what is working in regional agricultural research for development, and what needs to be done to sustain investments.