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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.

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.

Virus-related food shortages will be temporary in U.S., experts say (Michigan Farmer) 

April 30, 2020


Michigan Farmer reported on possible food supply shortages US. The blog post, The COVID-19 nutrition crisis: What to expect and how to protect, by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and Division Director Marie Ruel was quoted in the article stating the COVID-19 pandemic “has all the makings of a perfect storm for global malnutrition,” with vulnerable groups in developing countries facing “a dangerous decline in dietary quality” stemming from income losses related to government-imposed shutdowns of businesses and schools. Republished in Wallace Farmer, American Agriculturist, and other state agriculture outlets. 

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