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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.

SEEMS-Nutrition supports the scaling up of future solutions to enhance and sustain nutritious food systems in a rapidly evolving environment of decreasing child and maternal mortality and increasing income, urbanization, commercialization and globalization.  Awareness and commitment to improved nutrition through agriculture and healthy food systems is high on global and national agendas. However, transforming agriculture and food systems to make them more nutrition-sensitive is a long-term agenda that will require high quality information for priority setting, timely course corrections, investment decisions and resource allocation. This research is designed to strengthen evidence for decision-making on the costs and benefits of multisectoral strategies, nutrition sensitive value chains and integrated agriculture, health and nutrition interventions to improve economic, nutrition, and health well-being. Evidence on the costs and cost-effectiveness of multisectoral strategies will help program designers and policy makers make informed decisions about what interventions to prioritize to achieve nutrition-related development targets (e.g. World Health Assembly (WHA) or Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets).


Funders

Gates Foundation

Team members

Aulo Gelli

Senior Research Fellow, Poverty,
Gender, and Inclusion