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Dr. Liangzhi You (IFPRI) gives a talk about IFPRI’s Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM)

Since June 2016 Dr. Liangzhi You is IAMO Visiting Research Fellow. Currently, the senior scientist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC, USA, is visiting IAMO.

Today (2 pm, CR I) You will give a talk about IFPRI’s Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) entitled "Silk Purse from Sow’s Ear or Horses for Courses? Overview of IFPRI’s SPAM model". The model generates highly disaggregated, global and crop-specific spatial datasets of production, area and yield. At IAMO he works together with PD Dr. Daniel Müller, Dr. Zhanli Sun, and Fang Yin.