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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.

Expert urges Africa to learn from China’s agriculture revolution (Xinhuanet.com)

September 07, 2019


China’s Xinhua reported on the remarks of China Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow Kevin Chen at the recent Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). In the article, Chen noted that Africa could learn from China’s use of information and communication technology for agriculture. Chen added that political instability Africa’s biggest challenge to implementing policy reforms along these lines. The article was republished by South Africa’s IOL and China.org.cn.