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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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War in Ukraine – Food crisis: world prices the “highest ever recorded”, the United Nations gives the alert (L’Independant) 

April 08, 2022


L’Independant wrote in an article stating that the war in Ukraine could plunge millions of people into starvation in the coming months. Ukrainian grain supply problems, coupled with sanctions against Russia, are driving up prices. Even before Russian tanks entered Ukraine, world grain prices were already higher than they were during the 2007-2008 food crisis, researchers from IFPRI observed (see blog post, How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security?

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