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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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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 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

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  • IFPRI’s Liangzhi You named among World Food Prize Foundation’s 2026 Top Agri-food Pioneers

    June 18, 2026

    The 2026 TAP list recognizes 40 exceptional scientists, policymakers, innovators, and community leaders advancing solutions to global food security challenges


  • IFPRI and AFAAS partner across four countries to test AI tools for farmer advisory services

    June 11, 2026

    The partners will convene national stakeholders to identify priority use cases and co-design approaches for testing AI-enabled advisory tools.


  • IFPRI and UNU-WIDER sign memorandum of understanding to advance research and policy in fragile contexts

    June 10, 2026

    The partnership reflects a shared commitment to generating high-quality, policy-relevant research and ensuring that evidence informs decision-making in some of the world’s most challenging environments.


  • West Asia crisis: Why India needs a fertiliser security strategy (The Economic Times)

    June 05, 2026

    The Economic Times (India) published an op-ed by Barun Deb Pal and Anjani Kumar, IFPRI South Asia Office, and Smita Sirohi, ICAR-National Professor, MS Swaminathan Chair.


  • Zamfara transforming education through school meals — IFPRI, WFP (Vanguard News, The Punch)

    June 04, 2026

    Vanguard News and The Punch (Nigeria) highlight findings from a recent IFPRI and World Food Programme (WFP) assessment of Zamfara State’s school feeding program, launched in 2025 to address persistent education challenges linked to poverty, insecurity, and weak infrastructure. The articles quote a recent IFPRI piece by Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Asabe Maidawa, and […]


  • Iran war forces farmers to seek fertilizer alternatives from cow dung to compost (AP)

    May 31, 2026

    AP quotes IFPRI: “The Gulf region produces 30% of globally traded chemical fertilizer, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute, and global prices have increased by 50%, according to the World Bank’s fertilizer price index.” Read more


  • Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Here’s why (Think Landscape)

    May 19, 2026

    IFPRI’s Rob Vos is cited saying that South and Southeast Asian countries could be heavily impacted by the current fertilizer price shock.


  • “Hidden hunger”: Climate crisis reduces nutrients in food and widens global inequalities (O Globo)

    May 18, 2026

    Brazil’s O Globo interviewed IFPRI’s Timothy Sulser for the article examining how rising atmospheric CO₂ levels are reducing the nutritional quality of staple crops.


  • Anti-poverty program is effective even in one of the world’s toughest settings (NPR)

    May 04, 2026

    Research shows that the “graduation” anti-poverty approach can be effective even in world’s hardest humanitarian contexts. NPR interviews IFPRI’s Jessica Leight, co-author of the study.


  • Earth Day 2026: Agroecology and micronutrient supplements power food sovereignty (Nutrition Insight)

    April 22, 2026

    The article features recent IFPRI research on combining agriculture programs with micronutrient supplementation, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and behavior change interventions.