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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.

2019 Global Food Policy Report – Thimphu, Bhutan

Co-Organized by IFPRI and Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan

Hotel Migmar

Olakha Lam

Bhutan

April 29, 2019

  • 9:30 – 11:10 am (Asia/Thimphu)
  • 11:30 – 1:10 am (US/Eastern)
  • 9:00 – 10:40 am (Asia/Kolkata)

Marchang Ceremony

  • Director-DS, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)

Welcome Speech

  • Dasho Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)

Keynote Address

Launch of the Global Food Policy Report 

Inaugural Remarks

  • H.E. Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)

Signing of MOAF-IFPRI MoU 

  • Dasho Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)
  • Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI

Review of the Global Food Policy Report 

  • Panelists