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Erick Boy

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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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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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