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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.

Can the Covid-19 pandemic lead to starvation? (20minutes.fr) 

April 22, 2020


20 minutes.fr published an article on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The food crisis, which had already worsened in 2019, could worsen due to the coronavirus epidemic. According to IFPRI (see blog post, How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19?) each point of global recession plunges 14 million people into poverty, including 9 million people living in rural areas. Republished in more than forty international outlets including Le DauphinéChallengesLe Republicain Lorrain.

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