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What we do

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.


Chioma Arum

Program Associate

Bio

Arum Chioma is the Program Associate in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation, Policy, and Scaling Unit, based in Nigeria. With a background in Food Science and Technology and several years’ experience in the food industry, she is knowledgeable about food quality and safety assurances as well as route-to-market strategy. In her current position, she promotes and advertises the services of HarvestPlus and HarvestPlus Solutions through demand and leads generation and promotion of services, and contract, proposal, and business model development assistance to facilitate enabling environments through policy support and regulatory analysis. Arum develops and implements ways to overcome barriers to scale through value chain coordination, technical and digital solutions, enabling, and promoting inclusive operations through gender empowerment.


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