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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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Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Penina Muoki

Program Manager

Penina Muoki

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Penina Muoki is a Program Manager in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit with over 20 years of work experience in nutrition-sensitive agriculture projects that apply a market-led value chain approach. Since 2019, she has been working for HarvestPlus managing projects that promote biofortified high iron beans and pro-vitamin A maize and orange sweet potato in Kenya and Tanzania. She has delivered agricultural and nutrition projects through commercial pathways and school feeding program pathways, as well as a social model aiming to improve infant and maternal nutrition, working through synergistic public and private partnerships.

Before joining HarvestPlus, Penina worked with the Ministry of Agriculture-Kenya, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-Mozambique and Malawi, and the International Potato Center-Kenya. She holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Post-harvest Technology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, and a PhD in Food Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. 


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