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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.

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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Aulo Gelli

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Aulo Gelli is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. His main interests and experience are in the intersection of food policy and nutrition, with a particular focus on evaluating the impact of child health and nutrition interventions.

Prior to working at IFPRI, Aulo worked as a Research Fellow at Imperial College, as a Policy Analyst at the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences, and as a Statistician at the World Food Programme. Aulo trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, and then earned an MS in Information Processing and Neural Networks at Kings College London working on semantic memory models. He later studied human perception and cognition at the Laboratory of Neurobiology at University College London. He transitioned his career toward food policy and earned an MA in Development Economics and Food Security at the University of Rome, and a DPhil from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London.

Languages spoken: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

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Program pathways for sustainable, nutrition sensitive school meals: An updated framework

2024Gelli, Aulo; Bliznashka, Lilia
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Program pathways for sustainable, nutrition sensitive school meals: An updated framework

Global burden of disease analyses estimate that 20% of deaths are due to unhealthy diets (Afshin et al., 2019). Micronutrient deficiencies impair children’s physical and mental development (Bailey et al., 2015). The prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents increased from less than 1% in 1975 to 6% for girls and 8% for boys in 2016 (NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), 2017). The modernization of food systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has led to rapid shifts to unhealthy diets and reductions in physical activity that have contributed to the global increase in rates of overweight and obesity (Popkin et al., 2020). Moreover, current dietary and population trends will exacerbate risks to people and the planet (Willett et al., 2019). Attention to nutrition during all stages of child and adolescent development is necessary to ensure that children can thrive over the 8,000-day period spanning infancy to adulthood, and to protect investments made earlier in the life cycle (Black et al., 2013). School feeding programs, or school meals, is a widely implemented intervention with documented impacts across social protection, education, health and nutrition (Alderman et al., 2024). Globally, programs reach about 368 million children for a total investment of about $70 billion a year (World Food Programme, 2020).

Year published

2024

Authors

Gelli, Aulo; Bliznashka, Lilia

Citation

Gelli, Aulo; and Bliznashka, Lilia. 2024. Program pathways for sustainable, nutrition sensitive school meals: An updated framework. CGIAR Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163697

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Balanced Diets; Micronutrient Deficiencies; Nutrition; School Feeding; Sustainability

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Working Paper

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Nigeria school feeding program: Baseline farmers’ survey instrument

2024Andam, Kwaw S.; Amare, Mulubrhan; Gelli, Aulo; Kosec, Katrina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Fasoranti, Adetunji
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Nigeria school feeding program: Baseline farmers’ survey instrument

Year published

2024

Authors

Andam, Kwaw S.; Amare, Mulubrhan; Gelli, Aulo; Kosec, Katrina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Fasoranti, Adetunji

Citation

Andam, Kwaw; Amare, Mulubrhan; Gelli, Aulo; Kosec, Katrina; Abay, Kibrom; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; and Fasoranti, Adetunji. 2024. Nigeria school feeding program: Baseline farmers’ survey instrument. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159878

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Nigeria

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Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; School Feeding; Nutrition; Farmers; Training Materials

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Training Material

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Nigeria school feeding program: Train the trainers training manual

2024Andam, Kwaw S.; Amare, Mulubrhan; Gelli, Aulo; Kosec, Katrina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Fasoranti, Adetunji; Idowu, Ifetayo; Simpa, Suzan
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Nigeria school feeding program: Train the trainers training manual

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2024

Authors

Andam, Kwaw S.; Amare, Mulubrhan; Gelli, Aulo; Kosec, Katrina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Fasoranti, Adetunji; Idowu, Ifetayo; Simpa, Suzan

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Andam, Kwaw; Amare, Mulubrhan; Gelli, Aulo; Kosec, Katrina; Abay, Kibrom; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Fasoranti, Adetunji; Idowu, Ifetayo; and Simpa, Suzan. 2024. Nigeria school feeding program: Train the trainers training manual. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159866

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Nigeria

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Africa; Western Africa; School Feeding; Training Materials; Extension

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Training Material

Blogs

Unlocking opportunities for planet-friendly school meals
IFPRI Blog
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December 08, 2023

Unlocking opportunities for planet-friendly school meals

By Aulo Gelli and Marie Ruel

Balancing nutrition and climate.

Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – and could offer lessons for scaling up
IFPRI Blog
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September 20, 2023

Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – and could offer lessons for scaling up

By Elisheba Kiru and Aulo Gelli

Providing subsidized lunches for 250,000 Nairobi students.

Making a Difference: Childcare centers as a platform for improving child nutrition in Malawi
IFPRI Blog
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May 16, 2023

Making a Difference: Childcare centers as a platform for improving child nutrition in Malawi

By Aulo Gelli, Amy Margolies, and Brian McNamara

Education programs for parents yield continuing benefits.

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Events

Nudging for Good: AI driven diagnostics and behavior change to improve diets and nutrition
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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July 28, 2022, 12:00 – 2:00 pm

Nudging for Good: AI driven diagnostics and behavior change to improve diets and nutrition

Virtual Event: July 28, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM EDT. This seminar will launch the FRANI app and discuss the results of new dietary assessment technologies and perspectives on the way forward for technology-assisted diet assessment.

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Reflections from a Career in Research for Development
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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November 22, 2021, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Reflections from a Career in Research for Development

Virtual Event: Nov 22, 2021 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST. This special event will present experiences and insights gained over four decades of research, including reflections on academia and development in Africa. 

Cultivate Africa Dialog: Women in Agriculture
IFPRI at External Event

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November 17 to 18, 2020

Cultivate Africa Dialog: Women in Agriculture

IFPRI is participating in the Cultivate Africa Dialog event on November 17-18, 2020. The Africa Union Commission (AUC) and Hallpax are organizing a structured dialog with a view of providing effective solutions to the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agriculture industry in Africa. A cross-sectoral dialog will strengthen understanding and reinforce efforts for […]

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News

September 18, 2023 | In the News

Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – it could offer lessons for scaling up (The Conversation) 

More than 250,000 children in public primary schools in Nairobi will receive regular subsidized school meals provided by the county government. The Dishi Na County program is Kenya’s first in an urban setting. The national school meal program set up in 2009 serves more than 1.5 million children in rural drought-affected counties. The Conversation asked Elisheba Kiru (African Population and […]

July 11, 2023 | Press Release

Women key to crop success in low-income countries

This post is a slightly modified version of the original press release issued by the University of Edinburgh. Empowering women farmers in low and middle-income countries can lead to greater crop diversity helping to improve year-round supply of healthy foods, suggests a new article published in The Lancet Planetary Health by a group of authors including […]

July 11, 2023 | In the News

Editorial: Empower women to grow (The Lancet Planetary Health)

“Almost half of the world’s agricultural workers are women and women farmers produce up to 80% of the food grown in LMICs. Despite their large contribution to agricultural labor, fewer than 20% of landowners globally are women,” writes The Lancet Planetary Health in an editorial featuring a new article co-authored by IFPRI’s Lilia Bliznashka, Aulo Gelli, and […]

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