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How Kenya can boost agricultural productivity with fertiliser subsidy
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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 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 is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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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.
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Dr. Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Unit. His research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on the impact evaluation of different policy interventions on smallholder farm households in developing countries.
Before joining IFPRI, Hailemariam worked as a Departmental Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Oxford University. In collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), he was a Marie-Curie postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Hailemariam received his Ph.D. and MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2015, he was a visiting scholar and research fellow at the East African Social Science Transition (EASST) at the University of California in Berkeley. He also worked as a short-term consultant at the World Bank and a senior consultant at DAI Global (UK).
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