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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.

World Water Week 2022

Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water

August 23 to September 1, 2022

  • 7:00 – 12:20 pm (America/New_York)
  • 1:00 – 6:20 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 4:30 – 9:50 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in World Water Week (WWW), the leading conference on global water issues.

World Water Week 2022 will offer a platform for important global conversations. The sessions will help to uncover water’s full value to society. Within the overall theme of “Seeing the unseen: The value of water”, the sessions will be grouped under three theme headings, the value of water for people and development, the financial and economic value of water and the value of water for nature and climate.

“On the money”: Innovating finance to enable farmer-led irrigation (August 23, 2022 – 11:00 AM-12:20 PM EDT)

Valuing human experiences with water to reveal disparities, prioritize action (August 24, 2022 – 7:00 AM-8:20 AM EDT)

Governing Groundwater: The Why and the How (August 25, 2022 – 9:30 AM-10:50 AM EDT)

Solar irrigation in Africa: Bright future or broken promise? (August 25, 2022 – 11:00 AM-12:20 PM EDT)

  • Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Water, food, and nutrition in a climate crisis: Field insights (August 30, 2022 – 10:00 AM-11:30 AM EDT)