Back

Who we are

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.

Back

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

Back

Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Filters

  • Clear all X
  • Subtypes

Found 2988 Results

  • Malnutrition Burden in India Remains High, Nutrition Profiles of 640 Districts Reveal (Mint)

    December 15, 2017

    India's business daily, Mint, published a report on recently released nutritional profiles of all states in India, depicting high burden of malnutrition in the country. 


  • Maize Export Ban Costs Malawi k69 billion (The Nation)

    December 15, 2017

    Report on the potential loss of revenue due to a maize export ban in the country.


  • Precision Farming Will Feed the World the Green Way (Financial Times)

    December 09, 2017

    Financial Times published a report on precision farming’s role in increasing agricultural productivity and reducing environmental impacts of farming.
     


  • Agriculture is the Key to a Prosperous Africa (Financial Times)

    December 07, 2017

    Financial Times published an op-ed by Rwanda’s agriculture minister referencing IFPRI's finding that agricultural investments increase GDP. 


  • Air Pollution Casts a Shadow Over Development (FT)

    November 30, 2017

    Xiaobo Zhang finds air pollution negatively affects mental health and cognition, raising questions about development efforts focused solely on GDP.


  • Distorted Sex-Ratio Plays Havoc with Marriage in China (The Economist)

    November 29, 2017

    The Economist published a feature examining the impact of a skewed sex ratio on marriages in the Chinese society, leading to high bride prices.


  • Female Agricultural Researchers in Africa Continue to Rise (Quartz Africa)

    November 29, 2017

    Quartz Africa published a feature on recent IFPRI research by Nienke Beintema on shrinking gender gap in agricultural research in Africa south of the Sahara.


  • The Inequalities of Hunger (The Financial Express)

    November 27, 2017

    Bangladesh’s The Financial Express published a detailed feature on the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017 in the newspaper’s special edition.


  • Malawi Must Move from Relief to Resilience (The Nation)

    November 24, 2017

    Vice-President of Malawi Saulos Chilima outlines in an op-ed the actions urgently required to move Malawi from food relief to building food system resilience, based on his keynote address at IFPRI's Compact 2025 Forum.


  • A distorted sex ratio is playing havoc with marriage in China (Economist)

    November 24, 2017

    Economist published an article on the shortage of brides that is bending Chinese society out of shape. Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang was quoted.