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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.

Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2020

Food for all! Trade for Secure, Diverse and Sustainable Nutrition

CityCube Berlin

Messedamm 26

Berlin, Germany

January 16 to 18, 2020

  • 2:00 – 4:00 pm (Europe/Berlin)
  • 8:00 – 10:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 6:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2020–an international conference that focuses on crucial questions concerning the future of the global agri-food industry.

GFFA, organised hosted by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in cooperation with the Berlin Senate, Messe Berlin GmbH and the GFFA Berlin e.V., gives representatives from the worlds of politics, business and civil society an opportunity to share ideas and enhance political understanding on topics of current agricultural policy within the context of food security.  The forum intends to provide fresh impetus to the debate and look at trade for global food security from all angles.

Globalization in Transition: Trade in Times of Climate Change, New Protectionism and Economic Uncertainty – organized by the German Farmers Association (January 16, 2020  — 4:00pm – 5:30pm)