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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.

Where we work

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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.

Wuxi, the fast growing city that was formerly known as White Horse Village.

China Strategy Support Program

A farmer picks beans in fields overlooking Wuxi, the fast growing city that was formerly known as White Horse Village.

Overview

The China Strategy Support Program supports joint research, mutual learning, and capacity strengthening with Chinese institutions as well as policy dialogues and communication to improve evidence-based policymaking processes. A longstanding partnership with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), dating to 1996, includes a research center, influential research projects, events, and scholar exchanges.

IFPRI’s East and Central Asia Office, based in Beijing, works to expand evidence-based policy research and promote capacity building and policy communication in China, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. Focused on research on agriculture and rural development, improving food security and nutrition, designing public policies for poverty reduction, modeling agricultural markets, irrigation development and energy use, and South-South cooperation for agriculture, the office works closely with local research and academic institutions, and supports policy dialogues, conferences, and events to facilitate capacity building in the whole region.

To learn more, visit the IFPRI China website.


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Team members

Kevin Chen

Senior Research Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance

Kevin Chen

Senior Research Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance

Liangzhi You

Senior Research Fellow, Foresight
and Policy Modeling

Xiaobo Zhang

Senior Research Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance

Shuang Zhou

Research Analyst, Foresight
and Policy Modeling


The Programs

  • Kutubdia Island in the Bay of Bengal

    Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program

    Improving food and nutrition security is of paramount concern to millions in Bangladesh.

  • Wuxi, the fast growing city that was formerly known as White Horse Village.

    China Strategy Support Program

    Supports joint research & capacity strengthening as well as policy dialogues & communication to improve policymaking.

  • Farm land in Giza in Egypt

    Egypt Strategy Support Program

    Egypt SSP's main objective is to raise incomes of the rural poor and to improve food and nutrition security in Egypt.

  • Gayo village, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia Strategy Support Program

    ESSP is a collaborative program undertaken by IFPRI and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI)

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    Ghana Strategy Support Program

    Conduct research & advise on policy to support agricultural growth, rural development & economic transformation.

  • Local vendors selling vegetables at a market in Kenya,Africa

    Kenya Strategy Support Program

    KSSP is a policy research, capacity strengthening and policy communication program with the main objectives to accelerate poverty reduction and to improve food security.

  • Mitundu Market, Lilongwe, Malawi

    Malawi Strategy Support Program

    This project facilitates and promotes evidence-based dialogue and decision-making in support of agricultural development, food security, and economic growth in Malawi.

  • Country program Myanmar

    Myanmar Strategy Support Program

    The project supports agricultural transformation and other development policy goals by enhancing national technical, institutional, and policy analysis capacities.

  • Nigeria Strategy Support Program

    NSSP responds to the research, analysis, and capacity needs of stakeholders in the Nigerian agricultural research and policy community.

  • Fertile field at sunset in the countryside (Rwanda/ Africa)

    Rwanda Strategy Support Program

    Rwanda SSP is an initiative aligned with the Government of Rwanda’s vision to accelerate agricultural transformation and rural development in Rwanda.

  • A sunset view of river Nile in Khartoum, Sudan

    Sudan Strategy Support Program

    The Sudan Country Strategy Support Program (CSSP), with key team members based in Khartoum, can provide needed analytical support to the Government of Sudan, local and international partners.