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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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The double burden of malnutrition: need for urgent policy action (The Hindu)

January 04, 2020


The Hindu published an opinion piece written by Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon and Soumya Swaminathan on the importance of using evidence to inform policy in nutrition in India. Coherence is needed in areas of public policy across multiple ministries – incentivizing the cultivation and consumption of a range of food commodities; using the levers of government financing to buy better nutrition (not just more calories) in programs and expanding efforts to improve nutrition literacy.

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