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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.

G20 Agriculture Ministerial Meeting

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Argentina

July 25 to 28, 2018

  • 7:30 – 2:30 pm (America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires)
  • 6:30 – 1:30 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 4:00 – 11:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, gave a statement (A Sustainable Food Future for Human and Planetary Health) at the upcoming “Group of Twenty (G20)” Agricultural Ministerial Meeting — a leading forum of the world’s major economies that seeks to develop global policies to address today’s most pressing challenges.

The G20 is made up of 19 countries and the European Union. The 19 countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Collectively, G20 members represent all inhabited continents, 85 percent of global economic output, two-thirds of the world’s population, and 75 percent of international trade.

G20 policy-making is enriched by the participation of key international organizations regularly invited to G20 meetings, guest countries invited at the president’s discretion, and engagement groups composed of different sectors civil society.

IFPRI Participants: