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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.

Global Food Security Symposium 2019

From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future

DC

The National Press Club

529 14th Street NW

Washington, United States

March 20 to 21, 2019

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 2:00 – 10:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 2:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is partnering with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs for the 2019 symposium under the theme,  “From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future”.

By 2050, over one half of the world’s population could be at risk due to stress on water resources. How will we grow an adequate quantity—and quality—of food to feed and nourish a rapidly growing, urbanizing world in the face of increasing water insecurity?

IFPRI Participant:

  • Mark W. Rosegrant, Research Fellow Emeritus, IFPRI, Principal Author of From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future Report