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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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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 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa By 2020

Prioritizing Action, Strengthening Actors, and Facilitating Partnerships

April 1 to 3, 2004

  • 9:00 – 4:30 pm (Africa/Kampala)
  • 1:00 – 8:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 7:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Food and nutrition security remain Africa’s most fundamental challenge. This all-Africa conference brought together more than 500 traditional and new actors and stakeholders from more than 50 countries to deliberate on how to bring about change and action to assure food and nutrition security.