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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.

Using ICT to Promote Smallholder Business Credibility

Kigali Serena Hotel

Boulevard de la Revolution. Kigali 250.

Kigali, Rwanda

November 5, 2013

  • 6:30 – 10:00 pm (Africa/Kigali)
  • 11:30 – 3:00 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 10:00 – 1:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)

Through Improved Social Capital and Commercial and Technical Skills of Producer Organizations

AgriConneXions is a program on: “Using ICT to Promote Smallholder Business Credibility through Improved Social Capital and Commercial and Technical Skills of Producer Organizations”. The project intends to explore the use of modern information and communications technologies (ICT) in order to overcome the physical, infrastructural, and institutional obstacles facing SPOs related to geographic dispersion, diseconomies of scale, and weak administrative capacities.

The objective of this event is to share more on the AgriConneXions project, collect feedback, and build partnerships.