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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.
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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.
Dellings Phiri is the Country Manager for the HarvestPlus Malawi Program. He has worked in the agriculture sector for 20 years, with a focus on seeds. Before joining HarvestPlus, he worked for several years with Seed Co Mw Ltd as Managing Director, and for Monsanto Malawi (now Bayer Malawi) as Marketing Manager. He has also worked with the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) as Marketing Manager responsible for creating market linkages for farmers’ produce. Dellings holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Heriot Watt University, Scotland, and a bachelor’s of Commerce (Business Administration) degree from the University of Malawi.