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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Obesity boom ‘fuelling rise in malnutrition’ (BBC News)

December 04, 2025


An article on BBC News quotes 2016 Global Nutrition Report co-author and Researcher Lawrence Haddad saying, “We now live in a world where being malnourished is the new normal… It is a world that we must all claim as totally unacceptable.”

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