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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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COVID-19 and food: California should have enough, some farms struggle while others thrive, farmworker fears (Capital Public Radio)

March 31, 2020


Capital Public Radio (USA) published an article about possible food shortages. The interview cited from the IFPRI research blog, As COVID-19 spreads, no major concern for global food security yet by Division Director Rob Vos and Senior Research Fellows Will Martin, and David Laborde that stated there are enough stores of staple items globally to prevent shortages. Even in China, food supplies have remained adequate, with some stress on poultry and pork supply chains. The one area where the chain is seeing some disruptions is transporting food to stores

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