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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.

Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector(PreventionWeb) 

May 20, 2020


PreventionWeb published an article on what is known about the COVID-19 crisis as related to agriculture including 1) food supply chains and markets in the developing world are at risk. The article mentions two new COVID-19-related IFPRI tools—the COVID-19 Food Trade Policy Tracker and the COVID-19 Food Price Monitor, and 2) the need for nutritious foods. IFPRI research, Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: A global analysis was quoted, “In the face of drastic declines in income, vulnerable households will quickly give up nutrient-rich foods in order to preserve their caloric intake.”