Presentation Title: Understanding correlated climate risks to global food production

讲座时间：2025年11月6日下午16：00-17:00

讲座地点：经管学院209会议室

Presenter：Dr. Liangzhi You, IFRRI Senior Research Fellow

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute(IFPRI), and a visiting professor at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China. 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. He has published over 150 articles in diverse journals including Science Advances, Nature Food, PNAS, Global Change Biology, Agricultural Systems, The Economic Journal, and Agricultural Economics.  Liangzhi earned a B.S. in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua University in 1990, and an M.S. in environmental economics and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999.

IFPRI is one of 15 worldwide organizations that make up the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). IFPRI is based on Washington, DC, USA and is a public international organization. For over five decades, IFPRI has been conducting research, technical assistance, and policy communications activities on a broad-range of economic development and poverty reduction issues related to improving food security and reducing malnutrition in an environmentally sustainable manner.