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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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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 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Connection Between Coronavirus and Global Food Systems (One Green Planet)

March 16, 2020


One Green Planet reported on Covid-19 and the potential for a global food security crisis. There is a connection between disease outbreaks and food insecurity brought on by trade disruptions. Senior Research Fellow Kevin Chen, recommends that policymakers monitor food prices closely, restore operations of regional supply chains in China, increased financial support and corresponding policies, global cooperation over food trade and protection of vulnerable groups and migrant workers. Republished in Counter Currents.

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