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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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Food Insecurity: Famine, malnutrition looms in Nigeria, International experts warn (Vanguard)

July 21, 2017

Nigeria’s Vanguard covered the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the event’s central theme of food insecurity in a country experiencing rapid urbanization and continuing malnutrition. Director General Shenggen Fan stressed the need for the federal government to invest in agricultural research in order to maximize agricultural productivity.

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