Back

Who we are

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.

Loty Diop

Loty Diop is a Senior Research Analyst in the Nutrition, Health, and Diets Unit, based in Dakar, Senegal, where she works on projects that tackle food security and acute malnutrition. These projects involve assessing the nutritional status and micronutrient adequacy of the diets of vulnerable populations, as well as conducting in-depth analyses of the food environment.

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 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Amanda Wyatt

Senior Program Manager

Bio

Amanda Wyatt is a Senior Program Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She is working with the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), a multi-partner, multi-country research program aiming to identify transformative innovations and policies and strengthen stakeholders’ capacity toward food system transformations that enable consumption of sustainable healthy diets for all. From 2012 to 2021, she supported the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), initially as a Senior Research Assistant before becoming the Program Manager in 2014. She has field experience in East Africa and Southeast Asia. Before joining IFPRI, Amanda’s professional experience included research on the influence of a health coaching model on nutrition and physical activity behavior, community development work with resettled refugees, and work in a health policy think tank and in local government. Amanda received a master’s in Public Health from Emory University with a focus on Global Health and Public Nutrition and a bachelor’s degree in Communication from Truman State University.


Events


Research