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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.

The Food Security Simulator is an innovative, easy-to-use MS-Excel-based tool for assessing the potential short-term impacts of food price or household income shocks on food security and people’s diets.

The Simulator is an ideal tool for first-cut forward-looking evaluations of direct, household-level outcomes of economic crises and policy responses in a timely manner. The tool allows users to enter positive and negative price or income changes in percentage terms and provides simulated changes for a diverse set of food-consumption- and diet-quality-related indicators. In addition to detailed tabular presentations of all simulation results by household income quintile and residential area, key indicator results are summarized in concise overview tables and visualized in graphs for easy export and use in reports. The underlying data include estimates from representative household survey data and rigorous, sophisticated food demand models to capture consumer behavior.

Food Security Simulator – Ethiopia

Food Security Simulator – Kenya

Food Security Simulator – Nigeria

Food Security Simulator – Papua New Guinea

In Kenya, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, the Food Security Simulator was carried out under the CGIAR Science Program on Policy Innovations. We would like to thank all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund.

In Papua New Guinea, the Food Security Simulator has been financially supported by the Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through the Australia High Commission (AHC) in Port Moresby and the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).


Funders

CGIAR Trust Fund
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
PNGAus Partnership

Team members

Olivier Ecker

Senior Research Fellow, Foresight
and Policy Modeling

Hyacinth Edeh

Country Program Manager, Development
Strategies and Governance

Lensa Omune

Research Officer, Development
Strategies and Governance

Emily Schmidt

Senior Research Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance