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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.

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Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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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.

Nabila Afrin Shaima is a Research Assistant in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. She joined IFPRI in 2018 under the Integrated Food Policy Research Program in Bangladesh. Her research interests focus on environmental development and social sciences. She hopes to function as a change agent and initiate, promote, and manage processes of transition toward sustainable policies in economic, scientific, and civil organizations. Prior to joining IFPRI, Nabila was a Research Assistant in the Math and Science Department of the Asian University for Women. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the Asian University for Women and a master’s degree in Biotechnology from BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.