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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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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 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

The Silicon Valley food start-up thinks it can cure malnutrition in Africa (Washington Post)

February 28, 2018


The Washington Post published an article in which IFPRI’s Marie Ruel commented on the effectiveness of a new product, fortified cassava porridge, purportedly designed as “a solution to addressing West African Malnutrition”. Ruel stated the product does not address the core of the issue since the worst malnutrition effects, such as wasting and stunting, become irreversible between birth and age two. “It is not going to be a magic bullet,” said Ruel. The story was republished by multiple news outlets.

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