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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.
researcher spotlight
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.
Penina Muoki is a Program Manager in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit with over 20 years of work experience in nutrition-sensitive agriculture projects that apply a market-led value chain approach. Since 2019, she has been working for HarvestPlus managing projects that promote biofortified high iron beans and pro-vitamin A maize and orange sweet potato in Kenya and Tanzania. She has delivered agricultural and nutrition projects through commercial pathways and school feeding program pathways, as well as a social model aiming to improve infant and maternal nutrition, working through synergistic public and private partnerships.
Before joining HarvestPlus, Penina worked with the Ministry of Agriculture-Kenya, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-Mozambique and Malawi, and the International Potato Center-Kenya. She holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Post-harvest Technology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, and a PhD in Food Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Twenty years of HarvestPlus programs have a lasting impact.