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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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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.

IFPRI Events Rewind : December 2018

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November 15 – December 20, 2018
A recap of the latest IFPRI events with links to blogs, podcasts, and more.
Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
November 28-30, 2018
Co-Organized by IFPRI and FAO
Bangkok, Thailand


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“Ultimately the people and the consumers are the accelerators, because it’s our behaviors [that] shape our health and what the food system puts in front of us.”

Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
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COP24, “Science and policy coming together for a sustainable contribution of agriculture to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans”
December 04, 2018
Co-Organized by IFPRI, Cornell and CCAFS
Katowice, Poland


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Emerging Food System in South Asia: Policy Challenges and Opportunities
December 04, 2018
Co-Organized by NITI Aayog and IFPRI
New Delhi, India


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“We should focus on three aspects of the farming system…first, effect of changes in present production system on consumers, producers, sustainability and natural systems; second, what is driving changes in the farming system; and third, policies that are shaping the farming system.”

Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India, Government of India)
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What Lies Beneath: Women’s and Girls’ Wellbeing as a Critical Underpinning of India’s Nutritional Challenge
December 10, 2018
POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India) in collaboration with BMGF, EPoD India at IFMR, Naandi Foundation and UNICEF and the Delegation of the EU to the USA
New Delhi, India

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The Future Direction of US and EU Agricultural Policy
December 10, 2018
Co-Organized by IFPRI and the Delegation of the European Union to the United States
Washington, DC, USA

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“The challenge of agriculture in the developed economy is a very real one both for the agricultural communities and for our economies but also for the impact that we have on the developing world for whom agriculture is a key means of actually moving from poverty to greater prosperity .”

David O’Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States
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Book Launch, “Agricultural Policy in Disarray: Reforming the Farm Bill”
December 12, 2018
Co-Hosted by IFPRI and American Enterprise Institute
Washington, DC, USA


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“At the helicopter level, there has been an imperfect but positive arc in the evolution of US farm policies toward less intrusive forms of support…I think that reform advocates need to take more ownership of this evolution as something that we should claim pride in and something to build upon.”

David Orden, Professor, Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, Virginia Tech University
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Agricultural Transformation and Market Integration in the ASEAN Region: Responding to Food Security and Inclusiveness Concerns
December 13-14, 2018
Co-Organized by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), Royal Kingdom of Cambodia; IFPRI; SEARCA; and IFAD
Phnom Penh, Cambodia


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Upcoming Events
  • Feb. 14: InterAcademy Partnership reports on Food, Nutrition, Agriculture research
  • Feb. 28: Book launch, “Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: Seizing the Momentum
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