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

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    Richard Ariong

    Research Analyst

    Richard M. Ariong is a passionate Research Analyst in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He joined IFPRI in 2020 and is based in Kampala, Uganda. Richard’s research focuses on value chains and food systems development, agricultural technology adoption, behavioral economics, and agricultural policy. He leverages various econometric methodologies extensively […]


  • Channing Arndt

    Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and IFPRI

    Channing Arndt is the Senior Director for Transformation Strategies, where he oversees four units within IFPRI/CGIAR: Natural Resources and Resilience, Innovation Policy and Scaling, Foresight and Policy Modeling, and Development Strategies and Governance, which houses IFPRI’s regional offices and country programs. He has worked closely with central decision-making organs at […]


  • Chioma Arum

    Program Associate

    Arum Chioma is the Program Associate in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation, Policy, and Scaling Unit, based in Nigeria. With a background in Food Science and Technology and several years’ experience in the food industry, she is knowledgeable about food quality and safety assurances as well as route-to-market strategy. […]


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    Seth Asante

    Senior Research Officer

    Seth Asante is a Senior Research Officer with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


  • Timur Ashurov

    Research Assistant

    Timur Ashurov is a Research Assistant with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


  • Thomas Assefa

    Associate Research Fellow

    Thomas Woldu Assefa is an Associate Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He is a Development Economist with research interests including agricultural technology adoption, rural development, agricultural transformation, behavioral economics, agricultural extension and advisory services, food and nutrition security, and survey methods and measurements. Most of his […]


  • Zin Wai Aung

    Research Analyst

    Zin Wai Aung is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


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    Rasmi Avula

    Research Fellow

    Rasmi Avula is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on understanding processes and determinants that influence program implementation and their impact on nutrition. As part of a large portfolio of work under POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition […]


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    Meseret W. Ayele

    Research Officer

    Meseret W. Ayele is a Research Officer with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.


  • Carlo Azzarri

    Senior Research Fellow

    Carlo is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He is an economist and statistician with almost 20 years of experience in microeconomic research, in addition to collection, implementation, supervision, and analysis of household and community survey microdata. His interests include the relationships among poverty, nutrition, […]