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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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Food Insecurity: Famine, malnutrition looms in Nigeria, International experts warn (Vanguard)

July 21, 2017

Nigeria’s Vanguard covered the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the event’s central theme of food insecurity in a country experiencing rapid urbanization and continuing malnutrition. Director General Shenggen Fan stressed the need for the federal government to invest in agricultural research in order to maximize agricultural productivity.

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