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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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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 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Senior Research Fellow/Program Leader- Ethiopia

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Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Ethiopia. He is a development economist whose recent research covered agricultural transformation; impact evaluation (including impact evaluation of large multi-year public programs); social protection; individual psycho-social characteristics, behaviour, and well-being outcomes; risk and insurance, consumption patterns and demand elasticities; cooperatives; and inter‐sectoral linkages and growth. The bulk of Alemayehu’s research focuses on Ethiopia, with ongoing contributions to studies on Sudan and earlier work on sub-Sharan Africa. He is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Alemayehu has previously worked as an assistant professor of economics at Addis Ababa University and an economic affairs officer at the UNECA. He holds a BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University, an M.Sc. in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, and a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford.


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