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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.

Making Food systems Equitable: An African Dialogue on Gender & Food Systems

Co-Organized by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), African Women in Agriculture Research and Development, Africa Women in Agribusiness, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Pan Africa Farmers organization.

February 9, 2021

  • 12:00 – 2:00 pm (Africa/Addis_Ababa)
  • 4:00 – 6:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 2:30 – 4:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

In countries where gender norms prevent women from owning property and resources, people are also the hungriest. This is because gender equality and food systems are intertwined.  Too often, we only focus on the roles that women play in production, processing, trading of food, and in making decisions about consumption and purchase of food at household level. And while this is important, we must also focus on whether the food system as organized is just and equitable and whether it promotes the empowerment and livelihoods, and health of women and girls.

Stark gender inequalities are both a cause and an outcome of unsustainable food systems, unjust food access, consumption, and production. Tackling gender injustice and truly empowering women is not only a fundamental prerequisite for food systems transformation but also a goal.

This dialogue is one in a series of regional dialogues to discuss how to achieve the triple goal of gender equality, sustainable, and healthy food systems. It will bring together scientists, farmers and farmer organizations, policy makers, consumers, private sector and others to discuss solutions on guaranteeing land rights for women, rural women’s economic empowerment, women’s voices and decision making in food systems, bridging the gender technology gap and more.