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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.

If We All Ate Enough Fruits And Vegetables, There’d Be Big Shortages (NPR)

July 17, 2019


NPR reported a projected fruit and vegetable shortages compared to recommended consumption at global and national levels based on a study by IFPRI Senior Scientist Timothy Sulser and Senior Research Analysts Nicola Cenacchi and Shahnila Dunston. The article described the study’s key takeaways–including calls for increasing investments in fruit and vegetable production; increased efforts to educate people about healthy diets; and new techniques to reduce food waste–and placed the study within the context of a new World Resources Institute report on reforming the food system to improve planetary health.