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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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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.

COVID-19 pandemic threatens global food security, researchers say (Breitbart) 

August 01, 2020


Breitbart reported on the journal article, Economic and Food Supply Chain Disruptions Endanger Global Food Security in “Science.” The article’s authors/researchers David LabordeWill MartinJohan Swinnen, and Rob Vos detailed the many ways the global lockdowns necessitated by uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreaks have disrupted the labor market, threatening the food supply chain and the stability of agricultural and food markets. pandemic is undermining global food security. “Disruptions in food systems both contribute to increases in poverty, by affecting a critical source of income for many of the world’s poor, and also exacerbate the impacts of poverty by reducing access to food, particularly nutritious foods,” said Swinnen. Also, in El Boletin (Spain), Seed Daily/Earth News

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