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Erick Boy

Erick Boy

Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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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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Feed the Future DATATHON

DC

1201 Eye St. NW

12th Floor Conference Center

Washington, United States

August 11, 2017

  • 12:00 – 5:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 6:00 – 11:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 9:30 – 2:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI Datathon Event

To facilitate the use of Open Agriculture and Nutrition Datasets in agricultural research and development, IFPRI’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration (GCAN) project is working to make household-level data more approachable and interoperable.

At this Feed the Future DATATHON event, the GCAN project team will showcase findings from the harmonized data in Bangladesh across four key food security-relevant domains (climate, agriculture, nutrition, and gender) and invite avid data analysts and visualization specialists to generate their own analyses, infographics, and new insights.

Participants will be asked to work together, using the harmonized dataset for Bangladesh, on the following three topics:

  • Are there any historical trends of climate shocks and their impacts on the livelihoods of female farmers and their empowerment in agriculture?
  • Are there any spatial representation and historical dynamics of gender inequality in agriculture?
  • What are the relationships between women’s empowerment in agriculture and nutritional outcomes?

Funding support for the Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration (GCAN) initiative is provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).