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Who we are

With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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What we do

Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

Where we work

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Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Land and Property Research Conference

World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC

April 29 to May 1, 2026

  • 9:00 – 5:30 pm (America/New_York)
  • 3:00 – 11:30 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 3:00 am (Asia/Kolkata)

This year’s conference features academic research on land governance, land markets, and institutions, and their impact on economic growth and poverty reduction, structural transformation and resilience, private investment, and job creation.  The conference also includes sessions on property taxation and urban development, equity and rights, land-related conflict and land policy’s links to climate resilience. A cross-cutting theme is the  impact of new technologies, covering advances in digitalization of land registration procedures and data management, and the opportunities of  building on these advances and expanding  interoperability, as well as the integration of satellite data, administrative data analysis, and AI.

April 29, 2026


New approaches to High Quality Agricultural Data Collection | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | Location: MC 8-100

Does it matter whom you ask or how you ask? Systematic underreporting of land rental activity in household survey data

April 30, 2026


Land, labor, and economic development | 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Location: Preston Auditorium