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Erick Boy

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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Raising Ghana’s land productivity can transform economy, boost incomes – Report (MyJoyOnline)

December 08, 2019


MyJoyOnline (Ghana) reported on key findings in the book, Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects, co-edited by IFPRI Senior Researcher Fellows Danielle Resnick and Xinshen Diao; and independent researchers, Peter Hazell and Shashidhara Kolavalli. Resnick stated, “In order for the Ghanaian government and other African countries to harness the transformative potential of agriculture, more effort will be needed to strengthen relationships with business and target scarce resources to selected value chains with the greatest growth and employment potential.” 

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