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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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Pandemic could trigger a food crisis UN warns of global famine, 260 million people may be affected (i21st) 

May 14, 2020


i21st (China) reported on the WFP’s warning about the COVID-19 health crisis leading to a global food crisis. Director General Johan Swinnen’s statement to the New York Times was cited. “There is no global food shortage or mass famine from the pandemic, yet. But logistics problems in planting, harvesting, and transporting food will leave poor countries unprotected in the coming months, especially those dependent on imports.” 

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