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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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Child malnutrition worsens, how anti-slaughter laws hurt farmers, IIT-Madras shutdown (Audio Boom)

December 19, 2020


Audio Boom presented a podcast on how child malnutrition has worsened in many states, how strict anti-cattle slaughter laws can be disastrous for dairy farmers (16:16), and why IIT-Madras is going under a temporary lockdown (27:02). Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon was interviewed about findings of the phase of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) that reveals that several states across the country have reversed course and recorded worsening levels of child malnutrition. 

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