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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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Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa.
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IFPRI is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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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.
Arum Chioma is the Program Associate in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation, Policy, and Scaling Unit, based in Nigeria. With a background in Food Science and Technology and several years’ experience in the food industry, she is knowledgeable about food quality and safety assurances as well as route-to-market strategy. In her current position, she promotes and advertises the services of HarvestPlus and HarvestPlus Solutions through demand and leads generation and promotion of services, and contract, proposal, and business model development assistance to facilitate enabling environments through policy support and regulatory analysis. Arum develops and implements ways to overcome barriers to scale through value chain coordination, technical and digital solutions, enabling, and promoting inclusive operations through gender empowerment.