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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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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Corona also requires support to vulnerable foreign suppliers (Solidaridad)

April 17, 2020


Solidaridad (the Netherlands) published an article on the global food supply and dangers ahead due to the coronavirus. The local and international chains are under pressure. Small cocoa, fruit and coffee farmers cannot get rid of their products. These groups are extremely vulnerable due to extreme poverty and a lack of proper health care and nutrition. According to the IFPRI blog post, How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19, an additional 20-25 million people will end up in poverty through Corona. Vice Versa.

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