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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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Emily Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her most recent research explores household livelihood strategies in Papua New Guinea, including linkages between agriculture, poverty, and nutrition outcomes among rural smallholder farmers.
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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.
Kinya Kaibung’a is a Research Officer with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has a keen interest in leveraging machine learning, AI, and other cutting-edge technologies to boost climate resilience and food security in smart agriculture systems. She has previously worked with the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics as a researcher. She has also taught probability and statistics at Meru University of Science and Technology in Kenya.
She holds a master’s degree in mathematics and statistics and a bachelor’s degree in statistics from the University of Nairobi.