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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.

The global food problem isn’t what you think (Washington Post)

January 02, 2019


Washington Post published an op-ed by former Senior Research Fellow Gerald Nelson regarding the disconnect between agricultural research institutions and their lack of solidarity in achieving nutrition problems based on a recent research, co-authored along with Keith Lividini, Keith Wiebe and Timothy Sulser. Nelson dubbed the need for affordable and nutritious calories among rising global population rates “Calorie Fundamentalism.”

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