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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.

World Food Prize: “Feeding a Fragile World” 2022 Borlaug Dialogue International Dialogue

Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation in Climate Solutions

Iowa Events Center

IA

730 3rd St

Des Moines, United States

October 18 to 20, 2022

  • 8:00 – 7:30 pm (America/New_York)
  • 2:00 – 1:30 am (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 5:30 – 5:00 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 2022 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue. 

This year’s theme, “Feeding a Fragile World,” focuses on overcoming pervasive shocks to the global food system. The triple threat of COVID, Conflict, and Climate demands addressing the multiple challenges the global food system faces now and in the future. This event will address scalable solutions for adaptation and mitigation to limit planetary warming below 1.5° C and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality: Emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities from the 2022 Global Food 50/50 Report (October 18, 2022 — 8:00am – 9:30am EDT) Information

  • Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI
  • Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI

Achieving food security: Bold action in Africa for fertilizer and soil health (October 18, 2022 — 10:45am – 11:45am EDT)

Side Event | The Radicle Inclusion Challenge by Nutrien (October 18, 2022 — 1:30pm – 7:30pm EDT)

CGIAR Side event: Multiple-Win Solutions to the Global Food Crisis Speaking (October 19, 2022 — 8:30am – 9:45am EDT) Information

  • Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI

Accelerated Action for Food Systems Resilience: Egypt’s plans for COP27 and the role of CGIAR (October 20, 2022 — 8:15am – 9:45am EDT) Information

  • Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Pathways for a Just Transition: The Road to 1.5 degrees C in the Context of Zero Hunger by 2030 (October 20, 2022 — 3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT)

  • Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI