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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.


Jessica Heckert

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Jessica Heckert is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit.  She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to address questions related to adolescent/youth well-being and work experiences, the impact of agricultural development interventions on women’s empowerment and other gender-related outcomes, and the intersection of household gender dynamics and health outcomes. In line with these research themes, she also works on the development of women’s empowerment metrics, including the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and affiliated tools, as well as the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). She has conducted work in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Djibouti, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and Tanzania.

Jessica earned a PhD in demography and human development and family studies from Pennsylvania State University.

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish


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