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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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Appetite For Rice On Wane (The Daily Star)

October 23, 2017


Bangladesh’s The Daily Star reported on the recently released Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016 that showed rising income helped people diversify diets, reducing dependence on staples such as rice. The article quoted IFPRI-Bangladesh’s Akhter Ahmed who explained dietary diversification is essential from a nutritional standpoint, and rising consumption of chicken and eggs is good.

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