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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.

EAT Forum 2018

June 11 to 12, 2018

  • 9:00 – 5:30 pm (Europe/Stockholm)
  • 3:00 – 11:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 12:30 – 9:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food Forum will explore a range of solutions available for achieving healthy and sustainable diets for a growing global population. It will confront some of the hard questions head on, such as how to feed the world with zero land expansion and ocean depletion, or the benefits of processed foods and clean meat.

IFPRI and EAT will co-host a side event, “Sweden Launch of the 2018 Global Food Policy Report.”

IFPRI Participants:

Monday, June 11, 1:30pm – 2:30pm CEST

  • Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI
  • Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director, Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), IFPRI

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan will serve as a panelist in a United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) side event, “Actioning Nutrition to drive the 2030 Agenda.”

Tuesday, June 12, 7:30am – 8:30am CEST

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