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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 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 is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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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.
Md. Jainal Abedin is a Country Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has more than 25 years of experience in program planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluating in both rural and urban contexts, with a focus on food systems transformation and multistakeholder partnerships. Before joining IFPRI, Abedin worked with FAO, UNDP, CARE Bangladesh, Handicap International, and RDRS Bangladesh, where he had managerial and technical roles in strategic areas, including urban food systems transformation, extreme poverty reduction, action research, nutrition and food security, governance, climate adaptation, livelihoods, disability inclusion, women’s empowerment, policy advocacy, and capacity building.
Jainal holds a master’s in Business Administration from Southeast University, Bangladesh, and a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Bangladesh Agricultural University.