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

10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week

Hybrid Event

Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

June 16 to 26, 2025

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (Africa/Dar_es_Salaam)
  • 2:00 – 10:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 7:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week from June 16-26, 2025.

The ANH Academy Week is a series of annual events that bring together the community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersection of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health. The objective of the ANH Academy Week is to foster knowledge exchange, innovation, learning and uptake of interdisciplinary research.

ANH2025 will take place through a combination of online, in person and fully hybrid formats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It will feature Learning Labs; a series of training sessions and workshops in interdisciplinary agriculture, nutrition and health research and practice; and a Research Conference; an abstract-driven symposium featuring oral and poster sessions, special plenaries and keynote speeches, as well as side events, community discussions and socials. Explore more about ANH2025 here.

June 18, 8:00 am (EST)

Using ‘shop-alongs’ to understand people’s lived experiences in the food environments: application and stakeholder engagement in Tanzania and Benin

June 23, 11:15 am (EAT)

Can we measure that? A stepwise approach to design valid household survey indicators and questions about nutrition intervention coverage

June 23, 2:15 pm (EAT)

Strengthening causal inference from randomized controlled trials of complex interventions in agriculture, nutrition, and health

June 24, 11:45am (EAT)

Food is Always Close By: Adolescents and their Food Environments in a Rural town, and Peri-urban and Urban areas of Northern Vietnam

June 25, 11:15am (EAT)

Developing a food safety experience scale: Qualitative insights from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam
Reckoning with the (in)Equities in Agriculture-Nutrition-Health Research Practices