Samuel Benin, a citizen of Ghana, joined IFPRI as a Research Fellow in February 2004. Benin earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon (1988), an M.S. in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1993) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis (1998). At IFPRI, Benin works on assessing the economy-wide impacts of public investments in agriculture and rural areas and identifying investment options for achieving growth, income and poverty-reduction targets in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also leading IFPRI's Uganda country strategy support program. Prior to joining IFPRI, Benin worked for the International Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa where he led, developed and implemented research projects in the area of livestock.

• Pro-poor public investment
• Uganda Strategy Support Program

• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Uganda
• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Policies and programs affecting land management practices, input use and productivity in the highlands of Amhara region, Ethiopia
  2006. Benin, S. In Pender, J., Place, F. and Ehui, S. (Eds.). Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
  (PDF 152K)
• Strategic priorities for agricultural development in Eastern and Central Africa
  2006. Omamo, S.W., Diao, X., Wood, S., Chamberlin, J., You, L., Benin, S., Wood-Sichra, U. and Tatwangire, A. Research Report 150. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
• Determinants of cereal diversity on household farms in the highlands of northern Ethiopia
  2006. Benin, S.; Smale, M.; Pender, J. In Smale, M. Valuing Crop Biodiversity: On-farm Genetic Resources and Economic Change, CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.
• Development of land rental markets and agricultural productivity growth: the case of northern Ethiopia
  2005. Benin, S.; Ahmed, M.; Pender, J.; Ehui, S. Journal of African Economies 14(1):21-54.
• Enabling policies and linking producers to markets.
  2004. Benin, S. In D.J. Rees and M.P. Nampala (Eds.). Integrated Agricultural Research for Development: Achievements, Lessons Learnt and Best Practices. National Agricultural Research Organization, Entebbe, Uganda.
• Policies for livestock development in the Ethiopian highlands
  2003. Benin, S.; Ehui, S.; Pender, J. Environment, Development and Sustainability 5(3-4):491-510.
• Measurement and sources of technical efficiency of land tenure contracts in Ethiopia
  2002. Ahmed, M.M.; Gebremedhin, B.; Benin, S.; Ehui, S. Environmental and Development Economics 7:507-527.
• African agriculture in the context of globalization
  2002. In Ehui, S. and Benin, S. A New Look at Agriculture Diversity. Proceedings of the 2002 Gyeonbuk World Agri-Culture Forum Gyeonbuk, Korea.
• Strategies for sustainable development in less-favored areas
  2001. Pender, J.; Gebremedhin, B.; Benin, S.; Ehui, S. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(5):1231-1240.
• Agricultural economics and policy reforms: policy reform and natural resource management
  2000. In Henry de Frahan, B.; Benin, S.; Egan, L. (Eds.). The Nectar Programme, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium.