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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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  • 5 reasons cooking oils may get more expensive (CBS 42) 

    April 26, 2022

    CBS42 published an article on how food prices are on the rise across the world. The prices of vegetable oil, for example, hit an all-time high in February and then again in March. Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, told AP that continued low supplies could force countries to find a balance between using oils […]


  • Congress weighs response to global food crisis (National Journal) 

    April 26, 2022

    National Journal published an article on how policy advocates and experts want Congress to provide additional dollars to address the crisis, including through the U.N.’s World Food Programme, which works to deliver food in regions experiencing conflict and disasters. Prices have gone up globally and that will hit African countries hard because of their high import […]


  • How the “interdependence” of Russia and the West in the global food system began (and what is its impact on the war in Ukraine) (BBC World News)

    April 26, 2022

    BBC World News (Spanish version) published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare an international landscape marked by a “new Iron Curtain” separating Russia from the West that some experts fear could trigger a global food crisis. A humanitarian catastrophe is looming. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber says that “it is […]


  • The financial challenges currently facing pensioners (The Irish News) 

    April 25, 2022

    The Irish News published an article stating that one of the groups hardest hit by inflation and rising prices will be pensioners and soon-to-be pensioners. Pensioners are getting poorer. Moreover, more of their income is being eaten up by the cost of food, heating, and essentials, as the fallout from the war in Ukraine and […]


  • Food crisis due to war. There are three ways to ease it (SmogLab) 

    April 23, 2022

    SmogLab published an article that stated Ukraine produces enough food to feed 400 million people on Earth.” A food crisis will be the result of the ongoing war. Among other things, hunger in countries dependent on the supply of grains and seeds from Ukraine, and a further increase in food prices in other countries.  The […]


  • IFAD, WFP call for sustainable commitments to address food crisis in West Africa (HumAngle) 

    April 23, 2022

    HumAngle published an article that said the present food crisis is said to be due to limited food production, and barriers to regional trade, among others, which could be directly linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine that is disrupting global food trade. An analysis by IFPRI (see IFPRI blog post, West Africa faces mixed […]


  • Food economics in one Argentine Lesson (Wall Street Journal)

    April 23, 2022

    Wall Street Journal published an article on how bad choices in Latin America are contributing to global food shortages. Russi’s war on Ukraine is one reason for a spike in food prices that now threatens some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. But it’s far from the only reason. In Argentina, it isn’t even the […]


  • Russia’s war in Ukraine is causing economic supply chain havoc (New Zealand Herald) 

    April 23, 2022

    New Zealand Herald published an article stating that things weren’t great to start with. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began two years ago, global supply networks have been seriously disrupted. Factories have been closed. Ships have been stuck in long queues to offload their cargoes. Supplies of primary resources have been slowed. Now, just as the […]


  •  How Russia made the world more food insecure (Inkstick) 

    April 22, 2022

    Inkstick published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not only created global food insecurity but is also damaging the environment. A study by IFPRI found the rising demand for biofuels to be one of the main drivers contributing to the 2008 food crisis by causing the demand for grain and vegetable oil […]


  • Grain shortfall from Ukraine war exacerbates food insecurity in Africa (rfi)

    April 21, 2022

    RFi (France) published an article stating that to cover wheat shortages following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, African countries are looking to other sources or trying to use local-based alternatives in order to provide bread each day. However, this is also causing a spike in food prices. “What is coming immediately is an increase in price, […]