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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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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Beyond COVID-19: Recommendations from Five Years of Policy Research in Egypt and Directions for the Future

December 8, 2020

  • 2:00 – 4:00 pm (Africa/Cairo)
  • 7:00 – 9:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 5:30 – 7:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The event presents key findings and policy recommendations based on research and capacity building activities conducted by IFPRI and its Egyptian partners under the USAID-funded Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity (EIBC) project. It informs Egypt’s post-COVID-19 development agenda, presents a digital monitoring tool (MAP Egypt) and identifies directions for future policy research collaborations.

This virtual policy research symposium focuses on three areas:

• Promoting food system transformation and resilience post-COVID 19

• Digitalization of agricultural services and policy analysis

• Agriculture and social protection for improving health and nutrition