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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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Leveraging on agri-food sector for post-COVID revival of Lankan economy (Sunday Times) 

April 27, 2020


Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) published an op-ed by Jeevika Weerahewa and Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy on the complexity of what the impact on Sri Lanka’s economy might be during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.  The authors suggest a number of ways to prepare and alleviate some of the hardships. “Imports might be constrained for some time; Sri Lanka should use the crisis-driven opportunity to mitigate the constraints on domestic availability wherever applicable—ensuring raw materials (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, packaging materials, etc.).” Republished in FT (Sri Lanka), The Sunday Morning (Sri Lanka)

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