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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.

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  • Jordan, David; Brandenburg, Rick; Payne, Gary; Hoisington, David; Magnan, Nick; Hoffmann, Vivian; et al. 2018. Preventing mycotoxin contamination in groundnut cultivation. In Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes, volume 2: Improving cultivation of particular grain legumes, eds. Shoba Sivasankar, James Kelly, John Ojiem; Sushil Chaturvedi, and Paul Kimurto. Part 1: Cultivation of common beans, lentils, soybeans and groundnuts, Chapter 9. Cambridge, UK: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited.
  • Joshi, Pramod Kumar; Roy, Devesh; and Sonkar, Vinay Kuma;. 2017. Elements of agriculture value chain financing: A review. In Financing agriculture value chains in India: Challenges and opportunities, eds. Gyanendra Mani, Pramod Kumar Joshi, and M.V. Ashok. Part 1: Agriculture value chain financing: Theoretical framework, Chapter 2, pp. 15-32. Singapore: Springer.
  • Dorosh, Paul A.; Schmidt, Emily; and Thurlow, James. 2016. Agricultural growth, poverty, and the rural nonfarm economy: A spatial economy-wide analysis. In Agriculture and the rural economy in Pakistan: Issues, outlooks, and policy priorities. Spielman, David J.; Malik, Sohail Jehangir; Dorosh, Paul A.; and Ahmad, Nuzhat (Eds.). Chapter 12. Pp. 475-504. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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