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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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Subsidy pushes up yields by 3%—study (The Nation)

August 19, 2021


Nation (Malawi) published an article on a study that showed households that had access to Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP), the predecessor of Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), had their maize yields rise by a paltry 2.9 percent, a recent study has shown. IFPRI recently found that overall, poor households that received subsidized inputs under FISP were better off than those who did not access the inputs.

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