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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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  • How does the war in Ukraine impact the global food supply? (BBC Radio) 

    May 18, 2022

    BBC Radio produced a program that stated the Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased the possibility of global food insecurity. Most developing countries can’t cushion the blow. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber said the war itself came at a bad time due to droughts that reduced stock, prices were already high, and we’re talking about […]


  • IFPRI’s Global Food Report 2022: 74 mn Indians at risk due to climate change (WION) 

    May 18, 2022

    WION published an article about the launch of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report. According to IFPRI, climate change, and food systems, the number of Indians at risk of hunger in 2030 is expected to be about 74 million if the effects of climate change are to be factored in it would increase to 90.6 […]


  • Review: IFPRI’s latest reports highlights the grave risks of climate change on food systems (Factly) 

    May 17, 2022

    Factly published a review of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report, ‘Climate change and food systems.’ The report highlights the grave risks climate change poses to agricultural production, increased risk of hunger including estimates of impact by 2030 & 2050. The 2022 GFPR identifies climate change events impacting drivers; identifies impacts on agri-food systems; The […]


  • Effect of climate change: 9,000,000 Indians at risk of going hungry by 2030, report says (Bharat Express) 

    May 17, 2022

    Bharat Express published an article on results from the 2022 Global Food Policy Report. The Report showed that without climate change, 7.39 million Indians would have gone hungry by 2030 and that climate change will put nearly 23 percent more Indians at risk of starvation by 2030 due to reduced agricultural production and disruption of […]


  • The export bans driving up food prices around the world (Quartz) 

    May 17, 2022

    Quartz published an article stating that in April, India’s minister of commerce and industry made a heroic announcement. The world was reeling from the sudden drop in wheat supplies when Russia and Ukraine, two of the world’s largest wheat exporters, curtailed their exports due to the war, but India would step in to fill the […]


  • India isn’t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same (CNBC) 

    May 17, 2022

    CNBC published an article stating that India has banned wheat exports, becoming the latest country to do so as the price of grain surged this year due in part to the Russia-Ukraine war.  The war has triggered a huge spike in wheat prices, with Russia and Ukraine among the biggest exporters of the commodity. Both countries […]


  • Think Tank says unlikely any country can offset wheat export losses after India’s ban (Sputnik) 

    May 17, 2022

    Sputnik (Russia) published an article on global food security. Division director Rob Vos (Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division) said, is highly unlikely that there is a country that could fill the current gap in global food supply caused by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine after India decided to ban its exports.  Last week, India imposed […]


  • Pakistan’s water woes to worsen with climate change (The Print) 

    May 17, 2022

    The Print (Pakistan) published an article stating that IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report highlighted that the Himalayan glaciers have lost more mass since 2000 than in the entire twentieth century. According to IFPRI, Of the world’s five basins where water scarcity-led GDP losses are projected to be highest, three (Indus, Sabarmati, and Ganges-Brahmaputra) are […]


  • IFPRI’s latest report on climate change and food systems postulates the grave risk of hunger to rise in India by 2030 (Indian Wire) 

    May 17, 2022

    Indian Wire published a report on the 2022 Global Food Policy Report. According to the 2022 GFPR, climate change and food systems, India’s food production could drop by 16 percent, and the number of those at risk of hunger could be increased by 23 percent due to climate change. As the report suggests, “climate change […]


  • India halts wheat exports… Grain-importing countries on the rise of food protectionism (Nate News) 

    May 16, 2022

    Nate News (Korea) published an article stating that prices are skyrocketing due to a shortage of wheat. India halts wheat exports… Grain-importing countries on the rise of food protectionism. India, the world’s second-largest wheat producer, announced on the 14th that it would ban wheat exports except under special government permission. According to IFPRI, 23 countries […]