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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.

Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS) is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded umbrella project in India to be carried out in 2015-2019. WINGS aims to build the evidence base on the pathways through which Self Help Groups (SHGs) can improve nutrition in India.  It will conduct a comprehensive literature review, consolidate methods and metrics, and evaluate the impact of PRADAN’s nutrition-intensification intervention activities.

The evaluation consists of quantitative panel surveys and process evaluation studies, several experimental studies, and a cost-effectiveness analysis of PRADAN’s SHG models. Specifically, the evaluation will investigate the impact of PRADAN’s nutrition-intensification intervention activities on the nutritional status of women, how participation in PRADAN’s nutrition-intensification activities affect women’s empowerment, and how women’s empowerment mediates impacts on the nutritional status of women, as well as on the diet quality and nutritional status of children under two. WINGS will also develop a learning network on agriculture-nutrition-gender linkages in order to increase interaction and exchange of information among implementers, researchers, donors, and other stakeholders in South Asia.


Funders

Gates Foundation
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) led by IFPRI

Team members

Neha Kumar

Senior Research Fellow, Nutrition,
Diets, and Health

Neha Kumar

Senior Research Fellow, Nutrition,
Diets, and Health

Purnima Menon

Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy; Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions, Nutrition, Diets, and Health, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion