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Who we are

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.


Katharina Diehl

Scaling Specialist

Bio

Katharina Diehl is a Scaling Specialist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, based in Nairobi. She has been working on sustainability-oriented innovations in agriculture for more than 10 years, she has a high systemic understanding of innovation processes that depend on ecological and political framing conditions, as well as the integration of actors along value chains. In her current position with HarvestPlus, her focus is on scaling up biofortification in staple crops and food products.

Kathatina’s work is tightly linked to sustainability research and innovation system analysis, reflecting methods of impact assessment, fore- and back-casting, design thinking, and theory of change. For innovation management, this involves the development of implementation concepts that ensure close interaction between actors from administration, farming, food processing, and consumption. Technological, organizational and governance aspects are thereby analyzed in terms of viability and efficiency as well as resilience. She has earned degrees in both landscape ecology (Dipl.La-oek.) and agricultural sciences (Dr.rer.agr.).