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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.

2018 Global Food Policy Report – The Hague, Netherlands

Co-Organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, and IFPRI

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague

Rijnstraat 8

XP Den Haag, Netherlands

April 18, 2018

  • 2:30 – 4:30 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 8:30 – 10:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 6:00 – 8:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Introduction

Moderator: 

  • Paul van de Logt, Head, Food and Nutrition Security, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Opening

  • Shenggen Fan, Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

First Reaction

  • Reina Buijs, Deputy Director-General, International Cooperation at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Q&A with Shenggen Fan and Reina Buijs

Panel Discussion

  • Marit Maij, Special Envoy, Migration, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Meike van Ginneken, CEO, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
  • Remco Oostendorp, Professor of International Economics and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for World Food Studies, VU Amsterdam
  • Atze Schaap, Global Director, Dairy Development, FrieslandCampina

Q&A General

Closing/Wrap-Up

  • Aldrik Gierveld, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Agriculture Nature and Food Quality

IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report reviews major food policy issues and developments from the past year. Leading researchers, policy makers, and practitioners review the changing policy landscape for reducing hunger and poverty and offer a look forward to 2018.

This seventh annual report takes an in-depth look at the impacts of globalization—including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge—and the challenge of growing anti-globalization pressures. In 2018, the world must maintain its momentum toward ending poverty and malnutrition sustainably. Leveraging the benefits of globalization while minimizing the risks can make a key contribution to achieving this vision.