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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.

Foreign ag aid provides boost to domestic farmers (FeedStuffs)

October 17, 2019


FeedStuffs (USA), in an article, discussed the recently released report, How the United States benefits from agricultural and food security investments in developing countries. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan states, “Research is at the core of innovations in agriculture that benefit both recipient countries and those in the U.S. Continued American investment in foreign agriculture will be vital to providing growing global populations healthy and sustainable diets.” The report was also mentioned in stories in the Hagstrom Report (paywall) and Desoto Times.