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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

US agriculture: Can it handle coronavirus, labor shortages and panic buying? (USA Today) 

April 08, 2020


USA Today reported on the potential for a food supply crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis. Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Director Rob Vos believes that if the new Congressional stimulus package isn’t enough to sustain the purchasing power of laid-off workers, “then people may have to start saving on food and shift to cheaper and less healthy foods.” Republished by Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

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