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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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UN’s Guterres wants EU to ease Belarus sanctions. The EU isn’t so sure (POLITICO)

March 22, 2023


“Most EU countries want to counter the narrative, heralded by Russia, that EU sanctions are preventing food and fertilizers from reaching food-insecure countries,” writes POLITICO in an article discussing fertilizer supply issues to developing countries from Russia and Belarus.

The publication quotes IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that, despite the doomsday predictions, “there is no evidence that global agricultural productivity has gone down because of the fertilizer disruptions.”

Read the entire article.

Republished in Flipboard, News Now (UK and Belarus), and TV3 (Latvia)