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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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What we do

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

Where we work

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Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Elodie Becquey

Senior Research Fellow

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Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in the West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa. At IFPRI since 2013, she has conducted impact evaluation and implementation research on various nutrition and nutrition-sensitive programs in Africa. This work includes several evaluations of integrated interventions to prevent, detect, and/or treat child wasting, evaluation of a poultry value chain intervention, and evaluation of homestead food production. An expert on diet data analysis, she also studies the association between the healthiness of diets and engagement with the food environment in African contexts. She has experience working on populations of young children, school-age children, adolescents, and women of reproductive age in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. Before joining IFPRI, Elodie was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Helen Keller International and the University of California, Davis, and a PhD candidate at the French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development. Elodie obtained her PhD in epidemiology from the Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6 University.

Languages: French, English


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