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Erick Boy

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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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Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh

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Dr. Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Unit. His research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on the impact evaluation of different policy interventions on smallholder farm households in developing countries.

Before joining IFPRI, Hailemariam worked as a Departmental Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Oxford University. In collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), he was a Marie-Curie postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Hailemariam received his Ph.D. and MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2015, he was a visiting scholar and research fellow at the East African Social Science Transition (EASST) at the University of California in Berkeley. He also worked as a short-term consultant at the World Bank and a senior consultant at DAI Global (UK).

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Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: Africa Regional Launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report
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November 14, 2024, 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: Africa Regional Launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report

Despite significant progress in addressing hunger and undernutrition in the early 2000s, malnutrition, in all its forms, remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets remain the primary drivers of many forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Today, the number of people who […]