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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.

National Nutrition Conference in Ethiopia: Diets, Affordability and Policy in Ethiopia: From Evidence to Action

Co-Organized by IFPRI, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Hilton Addis Ababa

Menelik II Ave

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

December 12, 2019

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

Despite progress, many children in Ethiopia remain stunted, diet diversity continues to pose a challenge, and food systems are changing rapidly.

To support the implementation of Ethiopia’s National Food and Nutrition Policy (NFNP), IFPRI, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI), and the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) program will present new research results on diets, affordability, and policy at the National Nutrition Conference taking place in the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa on December 12, 2019.