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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.

A looming food crisis on top of the coronavirus crisis: Roots, solutions, and international cooperation

Co-Organized by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and IFPRI

May 18, 2020

  • 8:30 – 10:30 pm (Asia/Shanghai)
  • 8:30 – 10:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 6:00 – 8:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The ongoing global outbreak of COVID-19, which so far has infected some 4 million and killed over a quarter of a million people worldwide, continues to cause havoc on the global economy and is putting pressure on health systems. There are also increasing concerns that this health crisis could turn into a food crisis.

The recent Global Report on Food Crisis reported that 135 million people suffered acute hunger, needing food assistance in 2019. Because of COVID-19 this number could increase dramatically this year.