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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

T20 Summit Season 2020

Task Force 10: Sustainable Energy, Water, and Food Systems

October 22, 2020

  • 2:00 – 5:00 pm (Asia/Riyadh)
  • 7:00 – 10:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 4:30 – 7:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in a Task Force 10 webinar as part of the T20 Summit Season.

Task Force 10 will produce policy recommendations to enhance the management of energy, water and food systems and ensure security of supply for the global population in an efficient and sustainable way. The scale of existing networks and value chains and how the deployment of new technologies and contributes to policy discourse will be examined. It also aims to provide guidance to achieve efficient transitions that reduce GHG emissions while allowing all economies to prosper and recommendations on how to enhance international cooperation, infrastructure and institutions that help to ensure the stability of markets, for the joint benefit of both producing and consuming countries.

Panel Discussion: Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems

  • Channing Arndt, Director, Environment and Production Technology, IFPRI
  • Rob Vos, Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, IFPRI (Task 10 Co-Chair), Moderator