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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.

Where we work

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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.


Christine Mwangi

Research Officer

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Christine Mwangi is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in IFPRI’s Kenya office. Her research interests include food systems, seed systems, and technology and innovations in agriculture as well as their effect on agricultural productivity and food security. She is also knowledgeable in the use of contingent valuation and choice experiments in valuation of non-marketed goods. Before joining IFPRI, she worked with the Kula Vyema Centre of Food Economics, Brightpath Consulting, and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) as a Research Assistant studying ways to transform different agrifood system elements to provide healthier diets, food security, and livelihood improvement. Christine holds a master’s degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness Economics.