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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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Fixing Asia’s Food System (The Economist)

September 10, 2018


Cargill and The Economist outlined the necessary transformations to Asia’s food system in order to produce more while ensuring the highest safety standards.  Director General Shenggen Fan was quoted in the report calling for institutions, governments, and enterprises to apply economic and health lenses to to the food system problems to accelerate progress. 

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