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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.

Africa’s securest defense against crisis is dependable agricultural production (Daily Monitor) 

April 09, 2020


Daily Monitor wrote an article about the importance of agricultural production in Africa as it braces to be hit by the spread of COVID-19. Africa is not yet advanced in order to facilitate the flow of many essential needs, except with regard to the most important – food. The continent has sixty percent of global arable land and nine percent of global freshwater. IFPRI states that irrigation has the potential to boost Africa’s agricultural production by fifty percent, but current food production on the continent is almost entirely rainfed.

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