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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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What we do

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.

Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists

Co-organized by Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), IFPRI, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

Huazhong Agricultural University

Wuhan, China

December 2 to 3, 2022

  • 8:00 – 6:00 pm (Asia/Hong_Kong)
  • 7:00 – 5:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 5:30 – 3:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is co-organizing and participating in the Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists. This forum aims to bring together scientists, scholars and innovators from different subjects to discuss their research findings and exchange innovative ideas on all aspects of global food security.

IFPRI Participants

  • Channing Arndt, Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
  • Derek Headey, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
  • Liangzhi You, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI