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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.

Launching Compact2025 in Ethiopia: Roundtable discussion

March 28, 2016

  • 8:00 – 9:00 pm (Africa/Addis_Ababa)
  • 1:00 – 2:00 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 10:30 – 11:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen opened the Compact2025 roundtable discussion in Ethiopia, where progress in reducing hunger and undernutrition must be accelerated to reach the 2025 goal. The Deputy Prime Minister is also a member of the Compact2025 Leadership Council.

The Ethiopia roundtable discussion, which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 28, 2016, initiates a process in which Compact2025 will bring stakeholders together to set priorities, innovate and learn, fine-tune actions, build on successes, and synthesize sharable lessons in order to accelerate progress.

Shenggen Fan, IFPRI Director General and Compact2025 Leadership Council member, gave remarks emphasizing the need to work together: “We must leverage each other’s strengths across multiple sectors to improve food security, nutrition, and health.” Ato Newai Gebre‐Ab, Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister and Executive Director of the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), also offered opening remarks.