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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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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.

COVID-19 pandemic threatens global food security, researchers say (Breitbart) 

August 01, 2020


Breitbart reported on the journal article, Economic and Food Supply Chain Disruptions Endanger Global Food Security in “Science.” The article’s authors/researchers David LabordeWill MartinJohan Swinnen, and Rob Vos detailed the many ways the global lockdowns necessitated by uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreaks have disrupted the labor market, threatening the food supply chain and the stability of agricultural and food markets. pandemic is undermining global food security. “Disruptions in food systems both contribute to increases in poverty, by affecting a critical source of income for many of the world’s poor, and also exacerbate the impacts of poverty by reducing access to food, particularly nutritious foods,” said Swinnen. Also, in El Boletin (Spain), Seed Daily/Earth News

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