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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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Under-nutrition and obesity: two sides of the same coin? (Unimondo)

February 03, 2020


Unimondo reported on a study published in the Lancet. According to the study, “A new approach must be urgently defined to simultaneously reverse under-nutrition and obesity, because these problems are increasingly interconnected due to the rapid changes taking place in the food systems of the countries.” The research work, which is based on data collected in more than 120 low- and middle-income countries between 1990 and 2010, was funded by WHO through donations IFPRI, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and others.

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