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Erick Boy

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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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State of Food & Agriculture: Gains from social protection and threats from climate change

Event organized by IFPRI and FAO

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Fourth Floor Conference Facility

2033 K Street, NW

Washington, United States

February 2, 2016

  • 5:15 – 6:45 pm (America/New_York)
  • 11:15 – 12:45 am (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 3:45 – 5:15 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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State of Food and Agriculture

Speaker:

  • Rob Vos, director, Agricultural Development Economics (ESA), Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Discussant:

  • Daniel Gilligan, deputy division director of Poverty, Health, and Nutrition, IFPRI

Moderator:

  • Katrin Park, division director, Communications and Knowledge Management, IFPRI

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries, yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger. Many developing countries increasingly recognize that social protection measures are needed to relieve the immediate deprivation of people living in poverty and to prevent others from falling into poverty when a crisis strikes.

Rob Vos will share highlights of The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2015 making the case that social protection measures will help break the cycle of rural poverty and vulnerability, when combined with broader agricultural and rural development measures. 

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