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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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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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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.

5th Annual Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy Week

Coordinated by IMMANA, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and the London Centre on Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH)

June 30 to July 2, 2020

  • 7:30 – 12:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 1:30 – 6:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 5:00 – 9:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in ANH Academy Week that will bring together a community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers from across the world working at the intersection of agriculture, nutrition and health to foster knowledge exchange, innovation and learning, touching on COVID-19’s impacts on our shared work.

Presenter(s)

Title

Date

Time

John McDermott

Welcome Remarks

 30-Jun

 9:00am

John Hoddinott

Thematic Parallel Session

Ag-nutrition implementation science studies: A 

 30-Jun

 9:15am-10:15am

Aisha Twalibu, Giang Thai, Noora-Lisa Aberman

Thematic Parallel Session

Political and economic dynamics of nutrition and health: A 

 30-Jun

 9:15am–10:15am

Vivian Hoffman

Thematic Parallel Session

Food Safety

 30-Jun

 9:15am–10:15am

Namukolo Covic (Chair)

Thematic Parallel Session

Innovative approaches: B

 01-Jul

 9:30am–10:30am

Jef Leroy

Plenary discussion: Developing guidance for conducting RCTs in agriculture, nutrition, and health 

 02-Jul

 8:00am–9:00am

Shweta Gupta

Thematic Parallel Session

Macro-level interventions: A

 02-Jul

 9:15am–10:15am

Aisha Twalibu, Amy Margolies

Poster Hall

The burden of participation: A mixed methods study of the effects of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program on female caregiver time use in Malawi

All days

 

Mrignyani Sehgal

Poster Hall

The role of Social Identity in Shaping Economics Choices: Evidence from women’s Self Help Groups in India

All days