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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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Turning COVID-19 tragedy into opportunity (Vanguard)

April 17, 2020


Vanguard  (Nigeria) reported on fears of a long global recession brought on by COVID-19 have also led to worries about unprecedented global food insecurity, with concerns that agricultural production may be dislocated by containment measures that constrain workers from planting, managing and harvesting critical crops. IFPRI states in the article, about 37 countries have enacted various forms of food export restrictions in response to COVID-19, even in countries where average production exceeds domestic consumption (with additional information in the blog post, COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security). Republished in more than thirty media outlets including The Nation (Nigeria), Premium Times (Nigeria), The Cable (Nigeria).

 

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