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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.

Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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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.

The double burden of malnutrition: need for urgent policy action (The Hindu)

January 04, 2020


The Hindu published an opinion piece written by Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon and Soumya Swaminathan on the importance of using evidence to inform policy in nutrition in India. Coherence is needed in areas of public policy across multiple ministries – incentivizing the cultivation and consumption of a range of food commodities; using the levers of government financing to buy better nutrition (not just more calories) in programs and expanding efforts to improve nutrition literacy.

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