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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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‘The perfect storm of vulnerability’: Protection in the fields doesn’t follow farm workers home (News Center Maine) 

April 11, 2020

News Center Maine wrote an article about farmworkers who are essential employees during the coronavirus pandemic. But crowded living conditions could trigger an outbreak that would devastate the food supply.  Former IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan said, “COVID-19 is a health crisis. But it could also lead to a food security crisis if proper measures are not taken.”  Republished in CalMatters, Black Voice News, ABC10.

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