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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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Episode 9: It’s All in the Design: Soil Health Cards in India

What happens when researchers start learning all about marketing?

This episode features IFPRI Program Manager Vartika Singh who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how IFPRI researchers in India set out to investigate whether government-issued soil health cards were effective in getting smallholders to improve their farming practices. Instead, the researchers discovered an entirely different challenge: farmers couldn’t understand the cards. Working with a visual designer, IFPRI and its partners embarked on a process usually reserved for the marketing sector: helping make a product easy to understand and use. The story holds numerous lessons on how to make research more accessible to a wide audience.

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By Vartika Singh

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