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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 – Rome, Italy

Co-Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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FAO HQ, Sheikh Zayed Centre

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

Roma, Italy

May 8, 2018

  • 12:00 – 1:00 pm (Europe/Rome)
  • 6:00 – 7:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 3:30 – 4:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Speakers

Moderator

  • Kostas Stamoulis, Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

 

At the launch of the Report in Rome (a global launch of the report took place on March 20, 2018, in Washington D.C.), the key messages of the report and their relevance to today’s policy agenda will be highlighted by both the FAO Director-General and the IFPRI Director-General.

 

This will be followed by a moderated discussion where the audience will have the opportunity to comment and ask questions on the relevance of the report’s findings.

 

The audience will comprise permanent representatives to the Rome-based agencies, staff and experts of FAO, IFAD and WFP, and other international organizations present in Rome.